At 9:32 a.m. EDT, Apollo 11, the first U.S. lunar landing mission,
was launched on a historic journey to the surface of the moon.
After traveling 240,000 miles in 76 hours, Apollo 11 entered into
a lunar orbit on July 19.
The crew of Apollo 11, from left, Neil Armstrong, Michael
Collins and Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin in 1969. NASA/AP.
On June 29, 1995, the American space shuttle Atlantis docked
with the Russian space station Mir to form the largest man-
made satellite ever to orbit the Earth.
This historic moment of cooperation between former rival space programs was also the 100th human space mission in American
history.
Sally Kristen Ride (May 26, 1951 – July 23, 2012)
On June 18, 1983, the space shuttle Challenger was launched
into space on its second mission. On board the shuttle is Dr.
Sally K. Ride, who as a mission specialist, became the first
American woman to travel into space.
Ride, who had earlier pursued a professional tennis career,
answered a newspaper ad in 1977 from NASA calling for
young tech-savvy scientists who could work as mission
specialists. She died of pancreatic cancer at age 61.
Presidential Medal of Freedom
(2013, posthumous)
TIM MAGUIRE
The concept of "Miranda rights" was enshrined in U.S. law following
the 1966 Miranda v. Arizona Supreme Court decision, which found
that the Fifth and Sixth Amendment rights of Ernesto Arturo Miranda
had been violated during his arrest and trial for armed robbery, kidnapping, and rape of a young woman.
Miranda was subsequently retried and convicted.
On January 31, 1976, a fight erupted at the Amapola Bar at 233
South 2nd Street in downtown Phoenix in which Miranda was
stabbed. He was pronounced dead on arrival at Banner Good
Samaritan Medical Center. He was 34.
The grave of Ernesto Arturo Miranda in the City of Mesa Cemetery.
Taken aboard Apollo 8 by Bill Anders, this iconic picture
shows Earth peeking out from beyond the lunar surface
as the first crewed spacecraft circumnavigated the Moon,
with astronauts Anders, Frank Borman, and Jim Lovell
aboard. (Willian Anders/NASA)
FRIDAY HARBOR, Wash. (AP) — Retired Maj. Gen. William
Anders, the former Apollo 8 astronaut who took the iconic
“Earthrise” photo showing the planet as a shadowed blue
marble from space in 1968, was killed Friday when the plane
he was piloting alone plummeted into the waters off the San
Juan Islands in Washington state. He was 90.
The crew of Apollo 8, as seen during training before their
launch on Dec. 21, 1968.
William Alison Anders
(October 17, 1933 – June 7, 2024)
