19 July
1846: On 19 July 1846, Edward Pickering was born.Pickering was an American physicist and astronomer. He directed the Harvard College Observatory for forty-two years. He and his staff made visual ...
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1969: On 20 July 1969, US astronaut Neil A. Armstrong became the first human to set foot on the Moon.
As Commander of the Apollo 11 mission, he stepped from the Lunar Module 'Eagle' on to the surface of the Moon at 22:56 EDT, with over 500 000 million people from all around the world watching the event live on television. Lunar Module Pilot Edwin Aldrin joined him later and they explored the surface for two and a half hours, collecting samples and taking photographs. Command Module Pilot Michael Collins orbited overhead in the Apollo spacecraft 'Columbia'.
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18 July
1997: On 18 July 1997, Gene Shoemaker died.Shoemaker was an American planetary geologist. Shoemaker initiated and promoted the geology studies of American astronauts that made them able scientific observers and ...
17 July
1894: On 17 July 1894, Georges Lemaître was born.Lemaître was a Belgian astronomer and cosmologist, born in Charleroi, Belgium. He was also a civil engineer, army officer and ordained priest. ...
16 July
2000: On 16 July 2000, the first pair of the ESA Cluster flotilla blasted off aboard a Russian Soyuz rocket from Baikonur, Kazakhstan.Cluster is a collection of four spacecraft flying ...
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