On July 20, , a Frenchman named Pierre Lallement arrives in the United States, carrying the plans and components for the first modern bicycle. Lallement constructed and patented the first bicycle in the United States, but received no significant reward or recognition for On July 20, , a mass shooting occurs at a movie theater in Aurora, a Denver suburb, killing 12 people—the youngest a 6-year-old girl—and injuring at least 70 others.
The Aurora shooting took place shortly after the start of a crowded midnight showing of The Dark Knight Five years after Lieutenant Colonel George A. Army, which promises amnesty for him and his followers. Sitting Bull had been a major leader in the On the seventh anniversary of the Apollo 11 lunar landing, the Viking 1 lander, an unmanned U.
Viking 1 was launched on August 20, , and arrived at Mars on June 19, The first month of its orbit was devoted to On July 20, , President Richard Nixon, along with millions of others, watches as two American astronauts walk on the moon.
Sign up now to learn about This Day in History straight from your inbox. Having made the mistake of homesteading on land previously controlled by a Wyoming cattle king, homesteaders Ella Watson and James Averell are accused of rustling and hanged.
As the days of the open range cattle industry faded, conflicts between powerful western cattle barons and Crewmen aboard the U.
Iwo Jima, prime recovery ship for the Apollo 13 mission, hoist the Command Module aboard. Been there, done that. The lightweight unit folded up under the lunar landing module, ran on electric power and boasted its own onboard navigation system that communicated directly with mission control on Earth.
Apollo 15 astronauts drove 17 miles across the lunar surface collecting rocks from different geological formations.
One of the Apollo 15 astronauts brought home an ancient hunk of anorthosite that was later determined to be 4. That timeline would likely mean they may not fly until after , NASA's current target for a moon return. NASA currently has 48 active astronauts and has trained astronauts since the agency began training space travelers in the s.
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In the years that followed, budgetary constraints led to the canceling of other planned subsequent manned missions to the moon. The Apollo missions were always more about making a political statement rather than a scientific foray. The U.
In , the Trump administration had promised that we will again see American astronauts on the moon by , including the first woman to ever touch the lunar surface, part of a program called Artemis.
This target, now only three years away, seems highly unrealistic. NASA former administration Jim Bridenstine said that Artemis needs much more federal funding than it currently receives in order to achieve this stated goal. Join the ZME newsletter for amazing science news, features, and exclusive scoops.
More than 40, subscribers can't be wrong. Among other things, a new lunar module would have to be designed and built from scratch. Nowadays, it hovers at around 0. In February , President Biden announced that he would carry on the Artemis program begun under his predecessor. The Biden administration mentioned that to accomplish its Artemis goals of landing astronauts on the moon, it would do so with the help of industry and international partners, including the European Space Agency and Canadian Space Agency.
As before, politics may turn the tide. But it soon made up for lost time.
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