The
General Strike hit and crippled Great Britain.
February
7th
Soviet
spacecraft designer and cosmonaut Konstantin Feoktistov
was born in the city of Voronezh, Russia. Feoktistov was a crew
member of the Voskhod 1 mission on the 12th October 1964.
March 26th
The
American rocket scientist Robert Goddard successfully
launched the world's first liquid propellant rocket, using gasoline
and liquid oxygen.
April 3rd
NASA
astronaut Virgil I. (Gus) Grissom was born in Mitchell,
Indiana, USA. Grissom became the second American into space
in Mercury 4 (MR-4), July 1962. Also selected for Gemini
3 (GT-3) and Apollo 1.
August 31st
Soviet
cosmonaut Georgy Katys was born in the city of Moscow,
Russia. Katys served as back-up to Konstantin Feoktistov
on the Voskhod 1 mission on the 12th October 1964.
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