Apollo 14 Returns from the Moon: Shepard's Golf Shot in Space
Apollo 14 splashes down in the Pacific Ocean, capping the third successful manned lunar landing with Alan Shepard and Edgar Mitchell returning safely to Earth. This mission proved that NASA could recover from the Apollo 13 disaster by executing a precise landing near the Fra Mauro highlands and collecting over 95 pounds of lunar samples.
February 9, 1971
55 years ago
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What Else Happened on February 9
en Kyushu (la tercera isla más grande de Japón) se visualizan nueve soles, uno al lado del otro (posiblemente se trató de un fenómeno de parahelio).
Leo I needed an heir. His grandson was seven years old. So in 474, he crowned the boy's father — Zeno, an Isaurian chieftain from the mountains of southern Anat…
début du règne de l'empereur byzantin Léon II le Jeune.
violent séisme à Constantinople et dans l'ensemble de la Thrace,.
Bolesław I the Brave marched his forces into Bohemia to reinstall Boleslaus III as Duke, turning the region into a Polish satellite state. This intervention exp…
Bohemond of Taranto won the Battle of Antioch with an army that was starving. His Crusaders had been besieging the city for months, eating their horses, then th…
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