Science and Space History
Discoveries, missions and the people who made them, from early observatories to the space age.
1990
1990 · Space
Voyager 1 photographs Earth as a pale blue dot
February 14, 19901988
1988 · War & Conflict
Pan Am Flight 103 Is Destroyed Over Lockerbie
December 21, 19881988
1988 · Medicine & Health
The First World AIDS Day
December 1, 19881988
1988 · Space
Buran Makes Its Only Orbital Flight
November 15, 19881988
1988 · Crime & Justice
An Ovechkin family group hijacks Aeroflot Flight 3739
March 8, 19881986
1986 · War & Conflict
Pan Am Flight 73 is seized at Karachi airport
September 5, 19861986
1986 · Space
Voyager 2 makes its closest approach to Uranus
January 24, 19861985
1985 · Nature & Disasters
Arrow Air Flight 1285 Crashes at Gander
December 12, 19851985
1985 · Space
Discovery takes Sultan bin Salman into space
June 17, 19851983
1983 · Science
The Metre Is Defined Through the Speed of Light
October 21, 1983
1983 · History
Stanislav Petrov Assesses a False Nuclear Alarm
September 26, 19831983
1983 · Space