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Foreign Eggheads: Pointy-Skulled Women Were Immigrant Brides
Mysterious women with egg-shaped skulls found in medieval, Bavarian graves weren't locals, but rather immigrant brides.
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OTD In Space - June 16: First Woman Travels Into Space
On June 16, 1963, Valentina Nikolayeva Tereshkova became the first woman to travel into space. Tereshkova, a cosmonaut with then-Soviet Russia, launched into space on the Vostok 6 mission and orbited Earth 48 times in 70.8 hours. That's...
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OTD In Space - June 15: Iran Launches Satellite Into Orbit
On June 15, 2011, Iran launched satellite Rasad-1 into orbit around Earth. Rasad-1 (the name means Observation 1 in Farsi) is an imaging satellite that was sent into a 162-mile orbit by an Iranian Safir rocket. This was Iran's third...
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OTD In Space - June 14: Patent For Liquid-Fueled Rocket Granted
On June 14, 1914, the first patent for a liquid-fueled rocket design was granted to Dr. Robert Goddard, an American scientist and rocket pioneer. In the patent, Goddard described a rocket fueled with liquid propellants (liquid nitrous...
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OTD In Space - June 13: China’s Spacecraft Docks With Space Lab
On June 13, 2013, China's crewed Shenzhou 10 spacecraft made its successful docking with the Tiangong-1 space lab, marking the country's second mission to the mini-space station. This kicked off 12 days of docked operations for Shenzhou...
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OTD In Space - June 12: Venera 4 Launches On Mission To Venus
On June 12, 1967, Venera 4 was launched into space on a mission to Venus, thus becoming the first spacecraft to transmit data from another planet's atmosphere. This was a Russian probe designed to study the atmosphere of Venus down to...
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A Bottle Of Merlot That Was Aged In Space And Worth Over $1 Million
This was what happened to a bottle of Château Pétrus Merlot that spent a year aboard the International Space Station which was later auctioned at Christie's - reported at a price tag of over $1 million! You won't believe what exposure to...
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OTD In Space - June 11: International Crew Returns To Earth
On June 11, 2015, NASA astronaut Terry Virts, Italian astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti of the European Space Agency and Russian Anton Shkaplerov returned to Earth after 199 days on the International Space Station. The trio made up the...
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OTD In Space - June 10: Classic Curved Space Lecture Spoken
On June 10, 1854, Georg Friedrich Bernhard Riemann gave his classic lecture on curved space. Riemann was a 19th century mathematician from Germany. His landmark lecture included a workable definition of how someone might measure the...
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OTD In Space - June 9: Abee Meteorite Falls In Canada
On June 9, 1952, the Abee meteorite fell in Alberta, Canada, at 11:05 at night. The space stone weighed nearly 326 pounds and was recovered from a 6 foot- deep crater in a wheat field when it was found five days later. A piece of it is...
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OTD In Space - June 8: X-15 Makes First Glide Flight
On June 8, 1959, NASA's rocket-powered X-15 experimental plane made its first glide flight. The X-15 rocket plane was part of a series of experimental hypersonic aircraft. This flight marked the beginning of almost a decade of research...
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OTD In Space - June 7: Gemini 4 Returns To Earth
On June 7, 1965, after a four-day mission and 62 orbits, NASA's Gemini 4 mission returned to Earth with an Atlantic Ocean splashdown. Gemini 4 was NASA's 10th manned spaceflight. It included the first spacewalk by an American astronaut....
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OTD In Space - June 6: Thagard Breaks Space Endurance Record
On June 6, 1995, American astronaut Norman Thagard broke NASA's space endurance record at the time of 84 days, 1 hour and 16 minutes while aboard the Russian space station Mir. Thagard, a veteran of four shuttle flights, was considered...
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3D Models Of Objects In Space Released By NASA's Chandra Team
NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory team has released several 3D models of celestial onbjects that you can print. Credit: NASA/CXC/A. Hobart
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OTD In Space - June 5: Endeavour Launches On Mission To ISS
On June 5, 2002, the space shuttle Endeavour launched on the STS-111 mission from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida to the International Space Station. The launch was originally scheduled for May 30th, but was delayed first by bad...
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OTD In Space - June 4: Falcon 9 Rocket Reaches Orbit
On June 4, 2010, the first Falcon 9 rocket built by SpaceX blasted off from Cape Canaveral on its maiden voyage and reached orbit. Space Exploration Technologies, or Space X, was founded by billionaire Elon Musk, an internet entrepreneur...
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OTD In Space - June 3: First American Spacewalk
On June 3, 1965, NASA astronaut Ed White became the first American to walk in space. White left the safety of his Gemini 4 spacecraft equipped with a spacesuit, a tether and a small gas gun for maneuvering. The spacewalk occurred just...
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Signs Of Alien Life? New Study Finds Potential Biosignatures On Ocean World
Data from the James Webb Space Telescope on exoplanet K2-18b has revealed the "strongest hints yet of biological activity outside the solar system," according to a University of Cambridge study. Credit: Space.com | animations:...
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OTD In Space - June 2: First American Spacecraft On The Moon
On June 2, 1966, NASA's Surveyor 1 landed on the lunar surface to become the first American spacecraft to land on the moon. Surveyor 1 took more than 11,000 photos of the moon along with other measurements, but, more importantly, proved...
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OTD In Space - June 1: Endeavour’s Final Touchdown
On June 1, 2011, NASA's space shuttle Endeavor touched down safely for the final time at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida after spending 299 days in space throughout the course of its 25 flights. Endeavour was built as a replacement...
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OTD In Space - May 31: Kristall Module Launches To Mir Space Station
On May 31, 1990, the Soviet Union launched a new module to the Mir space station. The new component was named Kristall, and it was the third addition sent to Mir since the core module launched in 1986. Including the core module, Mir...
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OTD In Space - May 30: European Space Agency Established
On May 30, 1975, the European Space Agency officially opened for business. The European Space Agency was created as a merger of the European Launcher Development Organization, or ELDO, and the European Space Research Organisation, ESRO....
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Born To Be In Space - Astronaut Don Pettit Highlights Amazing Space Station Science Mission
NASA astronaut Don Pettit is scheduled to return to Earth from the International Space Station, completing his 4th mission to the orbital outpost. See some of the science he conducted and photography he captured. Credit: NASA
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OTD In Space - May 28: Able And Baker Become 1st Monkeys To Survive Spaceflight
On May 28, 1959, two monkeys named Able and Baker became the first monkeys to go to space and make it back alive. Miss Able was a rhesus monkey from Kansas, and her crewmate Miss Baker was a squirrel monkey from Peru. They were tucked...