A pair of NASA astronauts, who were stranded in space for more
than nine months, returned to Earth on Tuesday, landing in the
Gulf of America off Tallahassee, Florida, bringing an end to an unforeseen odyssey.

NASA astronauts Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore.

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.

(NASA) – America’s first space station, Skylab, launched into
Earth’s orbit on this day in history, May 14, 1973.

The unmanned space station blasted into space on a modified
Saturn V rocket at Florida’s Kennedy Space Center. 

According to Space.com., this marked the last time the Saturn
V rocket was used in spaceflight.

Artist’s concept of Skylab space station cluster in Earth’s
orbit.

SANDY KOZEL

SANDY KOZEL

Guglielmo Marconi, 1st Marquis of Marconi
( April 25, 1874 – July 20, 1937

Marconi was an Italian inventor and electrical engineer,
known for his pioneering work on long-distance radio
transmission, development of Marconi’s law, and a
radio telegraph system. He is credited as the inventor
of radio, and he shared the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics
with Karl Ferdinand Braun "in recognition of their
contributions to the development of wireless telegraphy".

Actor Alfredo James Pacino is 78 years old today.     

Al Pacino had his breakthrough as mobster Michael Corleone in the
Godfather trilogy and won an Academy Award for Best Actor for his
role as Frank Slade in the 1992 film Scent of a Woman. He is also
known for his starring roles in Dog Day Afternoon (1975), Heat (1995),
Scarface (1983), and Serpico (1973).

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