- 1969 in science
The year 1969 in
science andtechnology involved some significant events, listed below.Astronomy and space exploration
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January 15 - TheSoviet Union launchesSoyuz 5 .
*March 3 -Apollo program :NASA launchesApollo 9 to test thelunar module .
*March 13 -Apollo program :Apollo 9 returns safely toEarth after testing theLunar Module .
*May 16 -Venera program :Venera 5 , a Soviet spaceprobe, lands on Venus.
*May 17 - Venera program: SovietVenera 6 begins to descend into Venus', atmosphere sending back atmospheric data before being crushed by pressure.
*May 18 -Apollo program :Apollo 10 launches.
*May 22 - Apollo program:Apollo 10 's lunar module flies within 15,400 m of theMoon 's surface.
*May 26 - Apollo program:Apollo 10 returns toEarth after a successful eight-day test of all the components needed for the upcoming first mannedMoon landing.
*July 20 -Apollo program : The human race, represented byNeil Armstrong andBuzz Aldrin , lands on theMoon .Apollo 11 lifted off for the Moon onJuly 16 and returned safely onJuly 24 .
*August 5 -Mariner program :Mariner 7 makes its closest fly-by of Mars (3,524 kilometers).
*November 14 -Apollo program :NASA launchesApollo 12 , the second manned mission to the surface of theMoon (landed on the Moon onNovember 19 ).
*November 19 -Apollo program :Apollo 12 astronauts Charles Conrad andAlan Bean land atOceanus Procellarum ("Ocean of Storms") and become the third and fourthhuman s to walk on theMoon .Computer science
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April 7 - RFC 1, the firstRequest for Comments document from theInternet Engineering Task Force is published.
*November 21 - The firstARPANET link is established.Medicine
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April 4 - Dr.Denton Cooley implants the first temporaryartificial heart .Meteorology
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Herbert Saffir and Bob Simpson develop theSaffir-Simpson Hurricane Scale .Awards
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Nobel Prize s
** Physics -Murray Gell-Mann
** Chemistry -Derek Harold Richard Barton ,Odd Hassel
** Medicine -Max Delbrück ,Alfred D. Hershey ,Salvador Luria
*Turing Award -Marvin Minsky Births
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December 28 -Linus Torvalds , programmerDeaths
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August 17 -Otto Stern (b. 1888),physicist , Nobellaurette in Physics in 1943.
*October 21 -Waclaw Sierpinski (b. 1882), Polishmathematician .Organisations
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Spain withdraws fromCERN .
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