Mariner 2 Flies By Venus
On December 14, 1962, Mariner 2 became the first spacecraft to fly by Venus.
On December 14, 1962, Mariner 2 became the first spacecraft to fly by Venus.
On December 11, 1972, Apollo 17 became the last manned NASA mission to the Moon.
On November 20, 1889, one of the world’s most renowned astronomers, Edwin Hubble, was born.
Aviator and South Pole explorer Richard Evelyn Byrd was born on October 25, 1888, in Winchester, Virginia.
On September 27, 1962, Rachel Carson published the book Silent Spring, which inspired a massive environmental movement in the United States.
American historian Francis Parkman was born on September 16, 1823, in Boston, Massachusetts.
On September 4, 1882, Thomas Edison began providing electricity to a portion of New York City, an event often considered the start of the electrical age.
August 21, 2017, marks the first total solar eclipse of the sun to pass over the United States since 1979.
Connecticut senator and chairman of the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy Brien McMahon died on July 28, 1952, in Washington, DC.