14 July
1965: On 14 July 1965, Mariner 4 flew past Mars, making the first close-up photographs of another planet. The pictures, played back from a small tape recorder over a long ...
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1943/1967: On 15 July 1943, Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell was born. In 1967, she celebrated her 24th birthday by discovering the first pulsar, a rapidly spinning neutron star that sends out regular bursts of radio waves and other electromagnetic radiation.
She was working on her PhD at the University of Cambridge as a research student and constructed and operated the departmental radio telescope. The paper recordings of the radio waves received by the telescope were analysed by Bell and the analysis revealed the new phenomenon.
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13 July
1995: On 13 July 1995, the NASA spacecraft Galileo released a probe towards Jupiter that was to become the first Earth probe to penetrate the atmosphere of any of the ...
12 July
2000: On 12 July 2000, ESA's Cluster mission was rolled out to its launch pad. Shortly after sunrise, the doors of the Launch Vehicle Integration Hall in Baikonur, Kazakhstan, opened, ...
11 July
1979: On 11 July 1979, Skylab fell to Earth.Skylab was an orbiting space observatory manned by US astronauts, in operation during the early 1970s. After all crew activities had been ...
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