Science and Space History
Discoveries, missions and the people who made them, from early observatories to the space age.
1947
1947 · Technology
The Spruce Goose Flies Once, and Only Once
November 2, 19471947
1947 · Technology
Breaking the Sound Barrier: Chuck Yeager’s Historic Flight
October 14, 19471946
1946 · Science
A criticality accident exposes Louis Slotin to radiation
May 21, 19461942
1942 · Science
Chicago Pile-1 Achieves a Controlled Chain Reaction
December 2, 19421942
1942 · Technology
Lamarr and Antheil receive a frequency-hopping patent
August 11, 19421938
1938 · Nature & Disasters
A Living Coelacanth Is Caught off South Africa
December 22, 19381938
1938 · Science
Albert Hofmann First Synthesizes LSD
November 16, 19381935
1935 · Technology
The Hawker Hurricane Prototype Makes Its First Flight
November 6, 19351933
1933 · Science
Einstein Arrives in America as a Refugee
October 17, 1933
1933 · Crime & Justice
Seven Lives Lost: The Unsolved Mystery of United Air Lines Flight 23
October 10, 19331931
1931 · Technology
Thomas Edison Dies at Glenmont
October 18, 1931
1924 · Exploration