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Soyuz MS-10 launch failure

Shortly after liftoff, a launch vehicle boosters Soyuz-FG failed. The mission was to deliver the Soyuz MS-1 carrying American astronaut Nick Hague and Russian cosmonaut Aleksey Ovchinin to the International Space Station. The rocket managed to safely crash-land.

Mary Rose raised at Portsmouth, England

The wreck of the Mary Rose was discovered in 1971 and was raised in 1982 by the Mary Rose Trust in one of the most complex and expensive maritime salvage projects in history. The surviving section of the ship and thousands of recovered artefacts are of great value as a Tudor-era time capsule.

The first Apollo crew is in Space

Apollo 7 was launched from Cape Kennedy. The spacecraft spent nearly 11 days in space. Astronauts mainly tested spacecraft systems and various maneuvers, like Lunar Module rendezvous and docking. The mission was a technical success, but there was a tension between astronauts and ground control, sometimes called mutiny in space.

Anniversaries of the (in)famous

born 1967

Peter Thiel

born 1976

Sal Khan

died 2019

Alexey Leonov