23 August
1966: On 23 August 1966, NASA's Lunar Orbiter 1 took the first photograph of Earth from the Moon.The Lunar Orbiter 1 spacecraft was designed primarily to photograph smooth areas of ...
27 FEB. 2004
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2002: On 24 August 2002, the Integral satellite arrived at the Baikonur Cosmodrome after a trip from the ESA test centre in Noordwijk, the Netherlands.
The satellite, shipped in two separate modules, was transported by road to Schiphol airport, where it was loaded in the cargo bay of an Antonov 124 aircraft. After a stopover in Moscow, it arrived on 24 August in Yubileiniy airport, Kazakhstan. Finally, a train transferred the spacecraft containers from the airport to the Baikonur integration facilities. To avoid any shock to the spacecraft, this final leg took more than 6 hours for a distance of only 20 kilometres.
79: On 24 August 79 AD, Pliny the Elder died.
Pliny was a Roman author of the Natural History in 37 volumes, an encyclopaedic work of uneven accuracy that was an authority on scientific matters up to the Middle Ages. He prepared this as a digest of two thousand ancient books written by nearly five hundred writers.
He was undiscriminating and opinionated regarding the accuracy of the content. He rejected Pytheas's valid theory that the Moon was responsible for tides. On the contrary, he accepted the spherical form of Earth.
He died in the eruption of Vesuvius, too anxious to witness the event to retreat from the ashes and toxic gases.
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22 August
1989: On 22 August 1989, it was discovered that the planet Neptune had a ring system.Voyager 2 had taken images of Neptune on 20 August 1989, five days before its ...
21 August
1995: On 21 August 1995, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar died.An Indian-born astrophysicist, he was a Nobel Laureate in 1983. The term Chandrasekhar's limit shows that those stars which retain an end-of-life mass ...
20 August
2001: On 22 August 2001, Sir Fred Hoyle died. A British astronomer and founder of the Institute of Astronomy at Cambridge, he was best known for his contributions to knowledge ...
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