On July 6, 1687, Sir Isaac Newton published his Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica.
The three cosmonauts on the 1971 mission are the only people to have died after exposure to the vacuum of space.
On June 30, 1971, three Soviet cosmonauts died while reentering the Earth’s atmosphere after a successful docking and prolonged stay onboard the world’s first space station, Salyut 1.
This week in 2009, on June 18, NASA launched the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS) together with the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter (LRO) from Cape Canaveral SLC-41.
President George H.W. Bush was born on June 12, 1924. He would go on to make a significant impact on U.S. space policy during his one-term presidency.
This week in 2003, the British Mars lander Beagle 2 was launched as part of the European Space Agency’s (ESA) Mars Express mission.
This week in 2004, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency’s (JAXA) Hayabusa robotic spacecraft received a crucial gravity assist from Earth.
On May 6, 1968, astronaut Neil A. Armstrong, then assigned as backup commander for the Apollo 9 mission, took off on a simulated lunar landing mission in LLRV-1 from Ellington Air Force Base in Houston on his 22nd flight of the test vehicle.
This week in 1970, the People’s Republic of China successfully launched its first space satellite called the Dong Fang Hong I (translated as “The East Is Red 1”).