Annotation of src/usr.bin/calendar/calendars/calendar.space, Revision 1.3
1.1 jasper 1: /*
2: * Space
3: *
1.3 ! jasper 4: * $OpenBSD: calendar.space,v 1.2 2006/07/04 16:02:37 mickey Exp $
1.1 jasper 5: */
6:
7: #ifndef _calendar_space_
8: #define _calendar_space_
9:
10: 01/02 Soviet rocket carrying Lunokhod-1 leaves the Earth's orbit
11: the first time ever (though did not reach the moon), 1959
12: 01/04 Quadrantid meteor shower (look north)
13: 01/31 "Ham" the chimpanzee soars into space aboard Mercury-Redstone 2, 1961
14: 01/31 Explorer I launched, 1958. Van Allen Belt discovered
15: 02/18 Pluto discovered by Clyde Tombaugh, Lowell Observatory, AZ, 1930
16: 02/20 John Glenn orbits the Earth 3 times, 1962
17: 03/03 Gemini III launched with Virgil Grissom and John Young on board, 1965
18: 03/16 Robert Goddard launches first liquid-fueled rocket, Auburn MA, 1926
19: 03/17 Vanguard I launched, 1958. Earth proved pear-shaped
20: 03/18 Aleksei Leonov performs first spacewalk, 1965
1.2 mickey 21: 03/23 Mir station Flares Farewell after 15 years of service, 2001
1.1 jasper 22: 03/28 First reaction thrust motor demonstration, 1883
23: 03/30 Five rings around Uranus discovered, 1977
24: 04/12 Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man in space, 1961
25: 04/12 Space Shuttle Columbia launched, 1981
26: 04/13 Apollo 13 aborts moon landing due to oxygen tank explosion, 1970
27: 04/21 Lyrid meteor shower
28: 05/05 Alan Shepard becomes the first American in space, 1961
29: 05/14 Skylab (first U.S. space station) launched, 1973
30: 06/03 Edward White becomes the first American to perform a "Space Walk", 1965
31: 06/13 Pioneer 10 flies past Neptune's orbit, and becomes the first human
32: artifact to travel beyond the orbits of all known planets, 1983
33: 07/11 Skylab enters Earth's atmosphere and is destroyed, 1979
1.2 mickey 34: 07/04 NASA's Pathfinder lands on Mars, 1997
1.1 jasper 35: 07/20 Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin land on moon, 1969
36: 08/03 First ICBM (P-7) test (5T of iron is launched to Kamchatka), 1957
37: 08/11 Perseid meteor shower (look north; three days)
38: 08/12 First test flight of Space Shuttle "Enterprise" from 747, 1977
39: 08/19 Air Force cargo plane snares payload from Discoverer 14 spy satellite,
40: marking start of practical military reconnaissance from space, 1960
1.2 mickey 41: 08/25 First reaction thrust motor design, 1898
1.1 jasper 42: 08/29 Star in Cygnus goes nova and becomes 4th brightest in sky, 1975;
43: Nova Cygni 1975.
44: 10/01 NASA officially begins operations, 1958
45: 10/04 First space vehicle, Sputnik I, launched, 1957
46: 10/10 Mercury at Superior Conjunction with Sun. Moves into night sky. (1984)
47: 10/18 Soviets announce their probe took photos of the Moon's far side, 1959
48: 11/03 Sputnik II launched, 1957, bearing space dog Laika
49: 11/15 Space Shuttle Buran launched, 1988
50: 12/13 Apollo 17 leaves the moon, with "last" men to walk on moon aboard, 1972
51: 12/13 Geminid meteor shower (look south)
52: 12/24 Apollo 8 first manned lunar orbit, 1968
1.3 ! jasper 53: 12/30 Edwin Hubble announces the existence of other galaxies, 1924
1.1 jasper 54:
55: #endif /* !_calendar_space_ */