Today in history- Aug 30, 1983- Guion “Guy” Bluford became the first African America to travel to space , 22 years after the first American traveled to space. This twenty plus year’s gap makes his accomplishment an important milestone in African American history. Born November 22,1942 with a mother for a teacher and an engineer [...]

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Today in History – June 9, 1931 – Dr. Robert Hutchings Goddard patents a rocket-powered airplane. Goddard is perhaps best known for the first liquid-fueled rocket,  a very small contraption connected to tanks with gasoline and liquid oxygen, and sitting atop a frame 10 feet tall. It screeched into the air for a few seconds, [...]

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Today in History – April 13, 1960 – First U.S. navigational satellite. Transit satellites were used by the US Navy to develop the first operational navigation satellite system The Transit satellites provided an accurate, all-weather navigational aid for ballistic missile submarines and surface vessels and aircraft. The system was designed such that any craft could [...]

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Today in History – April 8, 1953 – the first major 3D movie was released. Well, actually the first 3D movie shown to a paying audience is reported to be the September 22, 1922 screening of a movie called Power of Love shown in a theater in Los Angeles. But the first major Hollywood 3D [...]

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Today in History – April 3, 1973 – Martin Cooper of Motorola invented the cell phone and provides a public demonstration. He made the call to his rival, Joel Engel, Bell Labs head of research. Motorola and AT&T Bell Labs were competing to develop cellular communications in the sixties and early seventies. Although AT&T’s Bell [...]

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