On August 7, 1987, Lynne Cox braved the freezing waters of the
Bering Strait to make the first recorded swim from the United
States to the Soviet Union with a time of 2 hours and 6 minutes
and the water temperature averaged around 43 to 44 °F. She
turned 65 years young in January.

Roger Earl Mosley 
(December 18, 1938 – August 7, 2022)

Mosley was an American actor, director, and writer
best known for his role as the helicopter pilot
Theodore "T.C." Calvin in the CBS television
series Magnum, P.I., which originally aired from
1980 until 1988.

Mosley reportedly died at Cedars-Sinai Medical
Center in Los Angeles, California, following injuries
sustained from a car collision on August 4.

NEW YORK (AP) — Marcus Eliason, an international journalist
whose insightful reporting, sparkling prose and skillful editing
graced Associated Press news wires for almost a half-century,
has died. He was 75.

He had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, developed
pneumonia earlier this week at a nursing home, and died on
Friday in a New York hospital.

From the Atlantic Missile Range in Cape Canaveral, Florida,
the U.S. unmanned spacecraft Explorer 6 was launched into
an orbit around the earth. The spacecraft, commonly known
as the “Paddlewheel” satellite, featured a photocell scanner
that transmitted a crude picture of the earth’s surface and
cloud cover from a distance of 17,000 miles. The photo,
received in Hawaii, took nearly 40 minutes to transmit.

Released by NASA in September, the first photograph ever
taken of the earth by a U.S. satellite (below) depicted a
crescent shape of part of the planet in sunlight. It was
Mexico, captured by Explorer 6 as it raced westward over
the earth at speeds in excess of 20,000 miles an hour. 

First satellite image of the Earth from space, taken by
Explorer 6 in 1959.

Explorer 6 Satellite (Reconstructed Replica) at the National Space Museum.