Officially known as C/1680 V1, Kirch’s discovery soon became known as the Great Comet of 1680 and was visible for many weeks, growing to become the brightest object in the night sky and one of the brightest comets of the seventeenth century.
The first episode of American science fiction television series Star Trek was broadcast at 8.30pm on NBC.
The words ‘Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed’ confirmed the safe touchdown at around 8:17pm GMT.
The two rockets of the Apollo–Soyuz Test Project launched from the USA and the USSR in the first international collaborative space mission.
Galileo was sentenced to house arrest where he remained for the final nine years of his life.
Kennedy’s $24 billion of investment did work, and Apollo 11 achieved Kennedy’s goal by landing on the moon on 20 July 1969.
At 11.39am Challenger lifted off, and seventy-three seconds later the Shuttle began to disintegrate following a huge fireball. All seven members of crew were killed, and the disaster led to NASA suspending all Space Shuttle missions for over two and a half years.
The crew of the Apollo 17 spacecraft took the iconic Blue Marble photograph of the earth.
The oldest meteorite with a known date of impact crashed into a wheat field outside the Alsatian town of Ensisheim.
The Prospero satellite was launched, making it the first and only British satellite to be launched using a British rocket.
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