One week after the Mayflower was anchored at Plymouth harbor
in present-day Massachusetts, construction of the first permanent European settlement in New England began.
23
Dec
CONSTRUCTION OF SETTLEMENT BEGINS
23
Dec
GLOBAL FLIGHT COMPLETED ON THIS DAY
After nine days and four minutes in the sky, the experimental
aircraft Voyager landed at Edwards Air Force Base in California, completing the first nonstop flight around the globe on one load
of fuel.
Piloted by Americans Dick Rutan and Jeana Yeager, Voyager was
made mostly of plastic and stiffened paper and carried more than
three times its weight in fuel when it took off from Edwards Air
Force Base on December 14. By the time it returned, after flying
25,012 miles around the planet, it had just five gallons of fuel left
in its remaining operational fuel tank.
The crew: Dick Rutan and friend Jeanna Yeager.
(no relation to aviator Chuck Yeager)
The Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum in
Washington DC.
23
Dec
RELEASE OF THE PUEBLO CREW ON THIS DAY
The crew and captain of the U.S. intelligence gathering ship
Pueblo were released after 11 months imprisonment by the
government of North Korea. The ship, and its 83-man crew,
was seized by North Korean warships on January 23 and
charged with intruding into North Korean waters.
Navy intelligence ship Pueblo.
Lloyd Mark "Pete" Bucher
(1 September 1927 – 28 January 2004)
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23
Dec
CHRISTMAS POEM FIRST PUBLISHED
On December 23, 1823, “A Visit From St. Nicholas,” perhaps
the most famous and influential Christmas poem ever was
published in the Troy Sentinel newspaper in New York by
an anonymous author.
Called "arguably the best-known verses ever written,” it
would shape the modern image of Santa Claus as "a right
jolly old elf" who travels through the air in a reindeer-
powered sleigh on Christmas eve, bounding down
chimneys after children are asleep to leave them gifts.
Clement Clarke Moore
(July 15, 1779 – July 10, 1863)
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22
Dec
A RECORD–BREAKING PASS NEAR THE SUN
NEW YORK (AP) — A NASA spacecraft aims to fly closer to the
sun than any object sent before.
The Parker Solar Probe was launched in 2018 to get a close-up
look at the sun. Since then, it has flown straight through the
sun’s corona: the outer atmosphere visible during a total solar
eclipse.
The next milestone: closest approach to the sun. Plans call for
Parker on Tuesday to hurtle through the sizzling solar atmosphere
and pass within a record-breaking 3.8 million miles of the sun’s
surface.
NASA said at that moment, if the sun and Earth were at opposite
ends of a football field, Parker "would be on the 4-yard line.”
Mission managers won’t know how Parker fared until days after
the flyby since the spacecraft will be out of communication range.
The 233-foot tall probe before launch from Cape Canaveral.
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