93, pp. 2686 – 2689, April 1996.

According to Roy Andrew Miller ( 1996: 98-99 ), the Clauson – Doerfer critique of Altaic relies exclusively on lexicon, whereas the fundamental evidence for Altaic consists in verbal morphology.

The most important text for the study of early Korean is the Hyangga, a collection of 25 poems, of which some go back to the Three Kingdoms period ( 57 – 668 AD ), but are preserved in an orthography that only goes back to the 9th century AD ( Miller 1996: 60 ).

* 1927 – Gerry Mulligan, American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, composer, and arranger ( d. 1996 )

* 1934 – Enrique Álvarez Félix, Mexican actor ( d. 1996 )

* 1932 – Tiny Tim, American singer, ukulele player, and archivist ( d. 1996 )

* 1896 – Hans List, Austrian inventor and entrepreneur ( d. 1996 )

* 1921 – Georg Alexander, Duke of Mecklenburg ( d. 1996 )

* 1990 – JonBenét Ramsey, American model and murder victim ( d. 1996 )

* 1899 – P. L. Travers, Australian author ( d. 1996 )

* 1911 – William Alfred Fowler, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1996 )

* 1996 – Antonia Lottner, German tennis player

* 1996 – Jean Le Moyne, Canadian journalist and politician ( b. 1913 )

* 1996 – John McSherry, American baseball umpire ( b. 1944 )

* 1930 – Károly Grósz, Hungarian politician ( d. 1996 )

* 1941 – Ron Brown, American politician ( d. 1996 )

* 1996 – Cymphonique Miller, American actress and singer

* 1907 – Ernesto Geisel, Brazilian military leader and politician, 29th President of Brazil ( d. 1996 )

* 1996 – Jørgen Garde, Danish admiral ( b. 1939 )

The second generation was led by Fernand Braudel ( 1902 – 1985 ) and included Georges Duby ( 1919 – 1996 ), Pierre Goubert ( 1915 – 2012 ), Robert Mandrou ( 1921 – 1984 ), Pierre Chaunu ( 1923 – 2009 ), Jacques Le Goff ( 1924 – ) and Ernest Labrousse ( 1895 – 1988 ).

The most famous experiment is probably the NASA Cosmic Background Explorer ( COBE ) satellite that orbited in 1989 – 1996 and which detected and quantified the large scale anisotropies at the limit of its detection capabilities.

It was originally detailed in a research paper by NASA engineers Robert Zubrin and David Baker in 1990, and later expanded upon in Zubrin's 1996 book The Case for Mars.

* 1996 – NASA launches the Mars Global Surveyor.

Since 1996, however, the collection has also included oral histories of senior NASA administrators and officials, astronauts, and project managers, part of a broader project to document the lives of key agency individuals.

The Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous-Shoemaker ( NEAR Shoemaker ), renamed after its 1996 launch in honor of planetary scientist Eugene M. Shoemaker, was a robotic space probe designed by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory for NASA to study the near-Earth asteroid Eros from close orbit over a period of a year.

* Polar ( satellite ), a satellite launched by NASA in 1996

Robbins is the hometown of the late Charles E. Brady, NASA astronaut of STS-78 space shuttle mission in 1996.

Chawla joined the NASA ' Astronaut Corps ' in March 1995 and was selected for her first flight in 1996.

Selected by NASA in April 1996, McCool reported to the Johnson Space Center in August 1996.

Selected by NASA in April 1996, Brown reported to the Johnson Space Center in August 1996.

Selected by NASA in April 1996, Clark reported to the Johnson Space Center in Houston, Texas in August 1996.

On August 6, 1996 ALH 84001 became newsworthy when it was claimed that the meteorite may contain evidence of traces of life from Mars, as published in an article in Science by David McKay of NASA.

The MAP mission was proposed to NASA in 1995, selected for definition study in 1996, and approved for development in 1997.

Students worked with NASA scientists to help analyze data and do research for the 1996 Space Shuttle Columbia shuttle mission.

The National Aeronautics and Space Administration ( NASA ) joined the partnership in October 1996, at the time Keck II commenced observations.

* NASA APOD: NGC 604-August 16, 1996

The Breakthrough Propulsion Physics Project ( BPP ) was a research project funded by NASA from 1996 through 2002, to study various proposals for " revolutionary " methods of spacecraft propulsion which would require breakthroughs in physics before they could be realized, hence the name.

* NASA APOD: The North America Nebula ( June 6, 1996 )

* NASA Space Flight Medals, ( 1983, 1985, 1989, 1991, 1993, 1996 )

In 1996, NASA scientist David McKay published a study suggesting the existence of nanofossils — fossils of Martian nanobacteria — in ALH84001, a meteorite originating from Mars and found in Antarctica.

After leaving NASA, Crippen served as a Vice President with Lockheed Martin Information Systems in Orlando, Florida from April 1995 to November 1996.