The crew of the Apollo 17 spacecraft took the iconic Blue Marble photograph of the earth.
11th July 1922: The Hollywood Bowl opens in Los Angeles
11th July 2020
The crew of the Apollo 17 spacecraft took the iconic Blue Marble photograph of the earth.
Shortly after midnight in Moscow, the Soviets became the first to successfully send a human-made object to the Moon.
On the 25th May 1961, American President John F. Kennedy made the announcement to a joint session of Congress that he had set his sights on a manned moon landing before the end of the decade.
The Outer Space Treaty, which provides the basic framework on international space law, was opened for signatures in the United States, the Soviet Union, and the United Kingdom.