November 11
Posted in White History on Nov 11th, 2010
1966 NASA launched the Gemini 12 spacecraft. The purpose of the flight was to practice and deonstrate the feasibility of spacewalks and extravehicular activity. 1875 American astronomer Vesto Slipher was born in Mulberry, Indiana. He spent his entire career at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona where he used spectroscopy to investigate the rotation periods of [...]