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diff --git a/src/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.space b/src/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.space new file mode 100644 index 0000000..eb9c0eb --- /dev/null +++ b/src/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.space @@ -0,0 +1,55 @@ +/* + * Space + * + * $OpenBSD: calendar.space,v 1.3 2006/10/31 18:11:54 jasper Exp $ + */ + +#ifndef _calendar_space_ +#define _calendar_space_ + +01/02 Soviet rocket carrying Lunokhod-1 leaves the Earth's orbit + the first time ever (though did not reach the moon), 1959 +01/04 Quadrantid meteor shower (look north) +01/31 "Ham" the chimpanzee soars into space aboard Mercury-Redstone 2, 1961 +01/31 Explorer I launched, 1958. Van Allen Belt discovered +02/18 Pluto discovered by Clyde Tombaugh, Lowell Observatory, AZ, 1930 +02/20 John Glenn orbits the Earth 3 times, 1962 +03/03 Gemini III launched with Virgil Grissom and John Young on board, 1965 +03/16 Robert Goddard launches first liquid-fueled rocket, Auburn MA, 1926 +03/17 Vanguard I launched, 1958. Earth proved pear-shaped +03/18 Aleksei Leonov performs first spacewalk, 1965 +03/23 Mir station Flares Farewell after 15 years of service, 2001 +03/28 First reaction thrust motor demonstration, 1883 +03/30 Five rings around Uranus discovered, 1977 +04/12 Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man in space, 1961 +04/12 Space Shuttle Columbia launched, 1981 +04/13 Apollo 13 aborts moon landing due to oxygen tank explosion, 1970 +04/21 Lyrid meteor shower +05/05 Alan Shepard becomes the first American in space, 1961 +05/14 Skylab (first U.S. space station) launched, 1973 +06/03 Edward White becomes the first American to perform a "Space Walk", 1965 +06/13 Pioneer 10 flies past Neptune's orbit, and becomes the first human + artifact to travel beyond the orbits of all known planets, 1983 +07/11 Skylab enters Earth's atmosphere and is destroyed, 1979 +07/04 NASA's Pathfinder lands on Mars, 1997 +07/20 Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin land on moon, 1969 +08/03 First ICBM (P-7) test (5T of iron is launched to Kamchatka), 1957 +08/11 Perseid meteor shower (look north; three days) +08/12 First test flight of Space Shuttle "Enterprise" from 747, 1977 +08/19 Air Force cargo plane snares payload from Discoverer 14 spy satellite, + marking start of practical military reconnaissance from space, 1960 +08/25 First reaction thrust motor design, 1898 +08/29 Star in Cygnus goes nova and becomes 4th brightest in sky, 1975; + Nova Cygni 1975. +10/01 NASA officially begins operations, 1958 +10/04 First space vehicle, Sputnik I, launched, 1957 +10/10 Mercury at Superior Conjunction with Sun. Moves into night sky. (1984) +10/18 Soviets announce their probe took photos of the Moon's far side, 1959 +11/03 Sputnik II launched, 1957, bearing space dog Laika +11/15 Space Shuttle Buran launched, 1988 +12/13 Apollo 17 leaves the moon, with "last" men to walk on moon aboard, 1972 +12/13 Geminid meteor shower (look south) +12/24 Apollo 8 first manned lunar orbit, 1968 +12/30 Edwin Hubble announces the existence of other galaxies, 1924 + +#endif /* !_calendar_space_ */ |