Medical Hypotheses, April 1999 ; 53 ( 4 ): 338 – 344.

* 1999 – Kwesi Boakye, American actor

* 1999 – US President Bill Clinton is cited for contempt of court for giving " intentionally false statements " in a sexual harassment civil lawsuit.

* 1917 – Helen Forrest, American singer ( d. 1999 )

* 1999 – Cambodia joins the Association of Southeast Asian Nations ( ASEAN ) bringing the number of members to 10.

* 1916 – Robert Shaw, American conductor ( d. 1999 )

* 1945 – Jan Sloot, Dutch inventor ( d. 1999 )

* 1910 – Charles Crichton, English director ( d. 1999 )

* 1926 – Norman Wexler, American screenwriter ( d. 1999 )

* 1925 – David A. Huffman, American computer scientist, developed the Huffman coding ( d. 1999 )

* 1904 – Charles " Buddy " Rogers, American actor and trombonist ( d. 1999 )

* 1930 – Wilmer Mizell, American baseball player ( d. 1999 )

* 1935 – Rod Hull, English comedian and actor ( d. 1999 )

* 1999 – Jesse Stone, American musician and songwriter ( b. 1901 )

* 1912 – Henry Jones, American actor ( d. 1999 )

* 1930 – Lionel Bart, English composer ( d. 1999 )

* 1918 – Sidney Gottlieb, American chemist ( d. 1999 )

* 1999 – Byron Farwell, American historian ( b. 1921 )

Antarctic fisheries in 1998 – 1999 ( July 1-June 30 ) reported landing 119, 898 tonnes.

A total of 10, 013 tourists visited in the 1998 – 1999 summer, up from the 9, 604 who visited the previous year.

* Josef Stanglmeier ( 1918 – 1999 ): builder and politician

* 1999 – The Chechnya-based Islamic International Brigade invades the neighboring Russian Dagestan.

* 1910 – Sylvia Sidney, American actress ( d. 1999 )

* 1922 – Rory Calhoun, American actor ( d. 1999 )

* 1939 – Dusty Springfield, English singer ( The Lana Sisters and The Springfields ) ( d. 1999 )

* 1999 – NASA loses radio contact with the Mars Polar Lander moments before the spacecraft enters the Martian atmosphere.

* 1999 – NASA announces that it has lost contact with the Mars Climate Orbiter.

The book was translated into Russian in early 1935, Slovene in 1986 ( by the Slovenska matica ), English in 1999 ( by NASA ) and Croatian in 2004 ( by Marino Fonović, published by Labin Art Press ).

* NASA ADS, 1999: Discovery of a Magnetar Associated with the Soft Gamma Repeater SGR 1900 + 14

Charles " Pete " Conrad, Jr. ( June 2, 1930 – July 8, 1999 ) was a U. S. Navy officer and NASA astronaut, and during the Apollo 12 mission became the third man to walk on the Moon.

Stardust was a 300-kilogram robotic space probe launched by NASA on February 7, 1999.

The last passenger flight for the Tu-144 was in June 1978 and it was last flown in 1999 by NASA.

The Chandra X-ray Observatory is a space telescope launched on STS-93 by NASA on July 23, 1999.

Chapman's NASA years are also described in Australia's Astronauts: Three Men and a Spaceflight Dream, 1999, by Colin Burgess.

On March 1, 1999, the Lewis Research Center was officially renamed the NASA John H. Glenn Research Center at Lewis Field after John Glenn ( American fighter pilot, astronaut and politician ).

::*" Marginalia " ( 1999 )-Baxter's novel Voyage as conspiracy theory-the idea that NASA really did go to Mars in the 1970s is explored.

NASA finally launched Landsat 7 on April 15, 1999.

* WIRE – A NASA satellite launched in 1999.

NASA Earth Observatory is an online publishing outlet for NASA which was created in 1999.

In 1999 NASA started the Boeing X-37 project, an unmanned, remote controlled spaceplane.

Akers retired from NASA in 1997 and the Air Force in 1999 at the rank of Colonel, taking a position as instructor of Mathematics at the University of Missouri – Rolla, which in 2008 changed its name to the Missouri University of Science and Technology.

The NASA Mars Surveyor 2001 Lander was a planned Mars probe which was canceled in May 2000 in the wake of the failures of the Mars Climate Orbiter and Mars Polar Lander missions in late 1999.

ASTER ( Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer ) is a Japanese sensor which is one of five remote sensory devices on board the Terra satellite launched into Earth orbit by NASA in 1999.

The Multi-angle Imaging SpectroRadiometer ( MISR ) is a scientific instrument on the Terra satellite launched by NASA on December 18, 1999.

The Moderate-resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer ( MODIS ) is a payload scientific instrument launched into Earth orbit by NASA in 1999 on board the Terra ( EOS AM ) Satellite, and in 2002 on board the Aqua ( EOS PM ) satellite.

MOPITT ( Measurements of Pollution in the Troposphere ) is a payload scientific instrument launched into Earth orbit by NASA on board the Terra satellite in 1999.

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