Tag: July 14

On This Day 51 Years Ago – Mariner 4 dismissed the possibility of life on Mars!

On: By: Philip Wake
On 14 July 1965 Mariner 4 performed the first successful flyby of the planet Mars. It captured the first images of another planet (ie not of Earth a moon) ever taken from deep space.  The pictures of a cratered, seemingly dead world drastically changed the view of the scientific community of the possibility of life on Mars - from possible to improbably if not impossible. Mariner 4 (together with Mariner 3 known as Mariner–Mars 1964) was the fourth in a series of spacecraft designed Read more [...]

On This Day 78 Years Ago – Around the world in 91 hours!

On: By: Philip Wake
On 10th July 1938 Howard Hughes began his flight around the world and arrived 91 hours later to break the previous record by more than four days! Howard Robard Hughes Jr (1905 - 1976) was an American business magnate, entrepreneur, investor, aviator, aerospace engineer, inventor, film producer and philanthropist. He was known as one of the most financially successful men in the world and gained prominence as an unorthodox film tycoon in Hollywood from the late 1920s. He made big-budget Read more [...]