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A depiction of a black hole in space.

oh5029 — 2024-06-24 19:34:18 UTC

A depiction of a black hole in space.

May 2022, scientists revealed the historic first image of the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy

satellites

oh5029 — 2024-06-24 19:34:21 UTC

Canadian satellites. There are 37 active satellites that have Canada listed as the country operator/owner. which occurred on October 4 1957.

first humans to orbit the Moon

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In late December 1968, the Apollo 8 crew of Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders became the first humans to leave Earth and journey to another world. They spent 20 hours orbiting the Moon, and then made the flight back home.

first soft landing on another planet (Venus)

oh5029 — 2024-06-24 19:34:29 UTC

Dec. 15, 1970. The Soviet Union's Venera 7 probe became the first spacecraft to soft land on another planet and the first to send back data from the surface.

first human to walk on the Moon

oh5029 — 2024-06-24 19:37:39 UTC

Neil Armstrong was the first human to walk on the surface of the moon. He was an astronaut who flew on two space missions. Which happened July 20, 1969

first return of lunar samples by an unmanned spacecraft

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Luna 16 was the first robotic probe to land on the Moon and return a sample to Earth and represented the first lunar sample return mission by the Soviet Union and the third overall, following the Apollo 11 and 12 missions. which happened Sept. 24, 1970

Project Apollo 1 goals

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Establishing the technology to meet other national interests in space. Achieving excellence in space for the United States. which was planned to launch on February 21, 1967.

First spacecraft to orbit Mercury

oh5029 — 2024-06-24 19:55:15 UTC

MESSENGER (Mercury Surface, Space Environment, Geochemistry and Ranging) was the seventh Discovery-class mission, and the first spacecraft to orbit Mercury. Its primary goal was to study the geology, magnetic field, and chemical composition of the planet. which occured on March 17, 2011.

The Canadarm. The Canadarm installing a thermal cube

oh5029 — 2024-06-24 20:00:21 UTC

Canadarm or Canadarm 1 (officially Shuttle Remote Manipulator System or SRMS, also SSRMS) is a series of robotic arms that were used on the Space Shuttle orbiters to deploy, manoeuvre, and capture payloads. which occurred November 13, 1981

Space farming.

oh5029 — 2024-06-24 20:23:49 UTC

A hydroponic farm at work. Space farming simply refers to growing plants in space. Developed through NASA-funded research, and this was in 1990

Crater names on Mars. An unnamed crater on the surface of Mars.

oh5029 — 2024-06-24 20:27:20 UTC

Some of the largest craters on Mars remain unnamed. Diameters differ depending on source data. discovered by Galilei in 1609.

first spacecraft to land on a comet

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The European Space Agency's Rosetta was the first mission designed to orbit and land on a comet. It consisted of an orbiter and a lander – called Philae. it occurred on November 12, 2014

First privately funded manned spacecraft to achieve suborbital flight above 100 km (62 miles)

oh5029 — 2024-06-24 20:36:25 UTC

SpaceShipOne was developed by Mojave Aerospace Ventures (a joint venture between Paul Allen and Scaled Composites, Burt Rutan's aviation company, in their Tier One program), without government funding. On June 21, 2004, it made the first privately funded human spaceflight.

Frederick Banting

oh5029 — 2024-06-24 20:39:15 UTC

Frederick Banting (1891–1941) Canadian medical scientist Sir Frederick Banting permanently changed the path of medical history with his revolutionary discovery of insulin. Banting, who was born in 1891,

Nikola Tesla

oh5029 — 2024-06-24 20:42:00 UTC

Nikola Tesla was born in 1856 in Austria-Hungary and emigrated to the U.S. in 1884 as a physicist. He pioneered the generation, transmission, and use of alternating current (AC) electricity