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Giovanni Cassini, Astronomer
Giovanni Domenico Cassini studied mathematics and astronomy at the Jesuits and became professor of astronomy at Bologna, as well as fortress builder, at age 25. There, he... |
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Christiaan Huygens, Dutch Scientist
Christiaan Huygens came from an important Dutch family. Huygens's first publications in 1651 and 1654 considered mathematical problems. The 1651 publication Cyclometriae... |
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Alexander von Humboldt, Naturalist
Alexander von Humboldt was a German naturalist and explorer, and the younger brother of the Prussian minister, philosopher, and linguist, Wilhelm von Humboldt (1767-1835)... |
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Albert Einstein, Relativity Theory - 1905
Einstein's contributions to physics began in 1905 with three major results: the explanation of Brownian motion in terms of molecules; the explanation of the photoelectric... |
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Edwin Hubble, Big Bang Theory
Hubble had also devised a classification system for the various galaxies he observed, sorting them by content, distance, shape, and brightness; it was then he noticed... |
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Wernher Von Braun, Inventor of the Rocket
Wernher Von Braun was one of the world's first and foremost rocket engineers and a leading authority on space travel. His will to expand man's knowledge through the explo... |
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Neil Armstrong, 1st Man on the Moon
As spacecraft commander for Apollo 11, the first piloted lunar landing mission, Armstrong gained the distinction of being the first person to step on the surface of the M... |
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Yuri Gagarin, 1st Man in Space
April 12, 1959 : Soviet cosmonaut who became the first human to travel in space. The son of a carpenter, Gagarin grew up on a collective farm in Saratov (later renamed Ga... |
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The Roswell UFO Incident
The Roswell UFO Incident involves the recovery of materials near Roswell, New Mexico, USA, on July 8, 1947, which since the late 1970s has become the subject of intense s... |
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Sputnik 1 : First Satellite in Space
History changed on October 4, 1957, when the Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik I. The world's first artificial satellite was about the size of a basketball, weig... |
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Nasa Timeline of Planetary Exploration
This chronology gives a list of a known (successful and unsuccessful) lunar and planetary missions including a few historical missions which were instrumental in the deve... |
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Apollo 11 : First Man on the Moon
The first human journey to the surface of the Moon began at Pad A, Launch Complex 39, Kennedy Space Center, Florida with the liftoff of Apollo 11 on a Saturn V booster at... |
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SpaceShipOne Makes History
21 June 2004 - First Private Manned Mission to Space. The world witnessed the dawn of a new space age today, as investor and philanthropist Pau... |
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The Encyclopedia of Space
The Encyclopedia of Astrobiology, Astronomy, and Spaceflight : An Alphabetical Guide to the Living Universe. Maintained by astronomer/author David Darling and is part of... |
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Humanity and the Universe in the Future
Planets have been dislodged from their solar systems by stellar close encounters. 1020 The remaining stars (brown or white dwarfs) have all either been dislodged from the... |
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