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** The Apollo 11 astronauts return from the first successful Moon landing, and are placed in biological isolation for several days, on the chance they may have brought back lunar germs.
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** and Apollo
** Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 9 ( James McDivitt, David Scott, Rusty Schweickart ) to test the lunar module.
** Apollo program: Apollo 10 returns to Earth, after a successful 8-day test of all the components needed for the upcoming first manned Moon landing.
** Apollo program: Apollo 12 astronauts Charles Conrad and Alan Bean land at Oceanus Procellarum (" Ocean of Storms "), becoming the third and fourth humans to walk on the Moon.
** Apollo Program: Apollo-Saturn mission 502 ( Apollo 6 ) is launched, as the second and last unmanned test-flight of the Saturn V launch vehicle.
** Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 7, the first manned Apollo mission ( Wally Schirra, Donn Eisele, Walter Cunningham ).
** Apollo 17 ( Gene Cernan, Ronald Evans, Harrison Schmitt ), the last manned Moon mission to date, is launched.
** Apollo 1: U. S. astronauts Gus Grissom, Edward Higgins White, and Roger Chaffee are killed when fire breaks out in their Apollo spacecraft during a launch pad test.
** NASA announces the crew for the Apollo 7 space mission ( first manned Apollo flight ): Walter M. Schirra, Jr., Donn F. Eisele, and R. Walter Cunningham.
** Ranger 8 crashes into the Moon, after a successful mission of photographing possible landing sites for the Apollo program astronauts.
** and 11
** In the former doge-state Venice, and while it was a republic resisting annexation by either the kingdom of Piedmont-Sardinia or the Austrian empire, a former Chief Executive ( president, 23 March 18485 July 1848 ), Daniele Manin ( b. 1804-d. 1857 ), was styled Dictator 11 – 13 August 1848 before joining the 13 August 1848-7 March 1849 Triumvirate.
** Nazarov was Dictator of the Don Republic ( which before, since its founding on 2 December 1917 at Novocherkassk, had been governed by a Triumvirate including the last pre-Soviet Ataman, Aleksei Maksimovich Kaledin ) from 11 February 1918 till 25 February 1918 when Bolshevik troops ended their existence
** Military accession and integration liaison – Tirana, from 2002 ( Albania ) – 2 out of 11 officers from 4 countries
** A faster, fully hardware-based multiplier makes instructions such as MUL and IMUL several times as fast ( and more predictable ) than in the 80486 ; the execution time is reduced from 13 ~ 42 clock cycles down to 10 ~ 11 for 32-bit operands.
** and astronauts
** STS-82: Tune-up and repair work on the Hubble Space Telescope is started by astronauts from Space Shuttle Discovery.
** At the conclusion of the STS-107 mission, the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrates during reentry over Texas, killing all 7 astronauts on board.
** Shenzhou 9, a Chinese spacecraft carrying three Chinese astronauts, including the first-ever female one, docked manually with an orbiting module Tiangong 1, first time as the country, making them as the third country, after the United States and Russia, to successfully perform the mission.
** Cosmic radiation is not a common concern, as the Earth's atmosphere absorbs it and the magnetosphere acts as a shield, but it poses a problem for satellites and astronauts and frequent fliers are also at a slight risk.
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