ESPN SportsZone
source: Starwave Corporation, Bellevue, WA, USA
United Nations 50th Anniversary
Space Shuttle
Previous mission:
STS-67 Endeavour,
landed Saturday March 18, 1995, 1:47PM PST at Edwards AFB,
ASTRO-2 ulraviolet telescope made many amazing discoveries,
SAREX: Shuttle Amateur Radio Experiment gave schools access to the shuttle
(Mar 2-18)
Note:
STS-70 Discovery's
launch with the TDRS-G communications satellite,
originally scheduled for June 8,
has been delayed until August because
woodpeckers damaged the insulation on the external fuel tank
while Discovery was being prepared at the launch pad.
Next mission:
STS-71 Atlantis,
(June 22-July 1)
Reusable Launch Vehicle program home page, the X-33 and X-34 spacecraft: the next generation Space Shuttles with single stage to orbit (SSTO), contractors selected March 8, source: NASA Marshall Space Flight Center, Huntsville, AL, USA
Star Trek Voyager
new TV series opened in the USA
along with the new United Paramount Network on January 16,
source: Paramount Pictures, Palo Alto, CA, USA
Public Broadcasting Service WWW Server, opened March 1, the organization behind American public television, source: PBS, Alexandria, VA, USA
National Press Club WWW Server, opened March 2, "collection of Internet resources for journalistic research", source: Internet Multicasting Service (at the National Press Building), Washington, DC, USA
US Department of Defense announces choices for 1995 base closures (Feb 28) proposal to "close or realign 146 bases" yet to be approved by Congress, source: The Pentagon, Washington, DC, USA
January 24, 1994 - Amdahl WWW server goes online
July 17, 1975 - Apollo/Soyuz handshake, first (and so far only) docking of American and Russian spacecraft in orbit, second will be June 1995 docking of Space Shuttle Atlantis and Mir space station
August 20, 1975 - Viking 1 Mars probe launch
September 9, 1975 - Viking 2 Mars probe launch
April 11, 1970 - Apollo 13 launch, mission aborted after in-flight explosion enroute to the Moon; returned safely to Earth on April 16, 1970
October 19, 1970 - Amdahl Corporation is founded, Sunnyvale, CA, USA
United Nations is founded
World War II - "50 Years Ago" Archives, source: John Davis' pages at Web Communications, Santa Cruz, CA, USA
Sep 9, 1945- The first "bug" in a computer program discovered by Grace Hopper, a moth was removed with tweasers from a relay and taped into the log
Dec 28, 1895 - The world's first movie theater opens in Paris
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