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- May Space History :
- 5 Alan Shepard becomes 1st American in Space in Freedom 7, 15 min
- sub-orbital flight. (1961)
- 11 Einstein's Theory of General Relativity presented (1916)
- 13 Soviet cosmonauts Berezovoi and Lebedev depart Baikonur Cosmodrome
- to begin 211 days in space, most of them aboard Salyut-7 space
- station (1982).
- 14 Skylab 1 launched, damaging thermal shield and solar wing (1973).
- 16 Gordon Cooper completes 22 Earth orbits in Faith 7. (1963)
- 17 Joseph Norman Lockyer born (1836). Discover of Helium in Sun spectra
- NASA launches first synchronous Meteorological satellite SMS-1.('74)
- 18 Launch of Apollo 10 to rehearse lunar landing. Cernan, Stafford,
- and Young. (1969)
- 20 US Launches Pioneer Venus 1 which produces 1st global radar map of
- Venus. (1978)
- 24 Astronaut Scott Carpenter completes 3 Earth orbits in Aurora 7 (1962)
- 25 Arther C. Clark proposes the placement of relay satellites in
- geosynchronous orbit. (1945)
- President Kennedy declares landing a man on the Moon national space
- objective. (1961)
- US launches 1st Skylab crew. Kerwin,Conrad, Weitz (1973)
- 28 Astromonkeys "Able" & "Baker" zoom 300 miles into space on Jupiter
- missle. (1959)
- USSR launches Mars 3 to Mars (1971).
- 29 Einstein's Theory of General Relativity tested during solar eclipse.
- (1919).
- 30 Mariner 9 launched; 1st craft to orbit Mars (1971).
- 31 Construction begins on Soviet cosmodrome launch facilities (1955).
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