🎒🐰💭’21 May 2010, JAXA, the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, launches the solar-sail spacecraft IKAROS aboard an H-IIA rocket. The vessel would make a Venus flyby late in the year..
🎒🐰💭’20 May 1891, History of cinema: The first public display of Thomas Edison’s prototype kinetoscope.
🎒🐰💭’19 May 1961, Venera program: Venera 1 becomes the first man-made object to fly-by another planet by passing Venus.
🎒🐰💭’18 May 2005, A second photo from the Hubble Space Telescope confirms that Pluto has two additional moons, Nix and Hydra.
🎒🐰💭’17 May 1969, Venera program: Soviet Venera 6 begins its descent into the atmosphere of Venus, sending back atmospheric data before being crushed by pressure.
🎒🐰💭’16 May 1891, The International Electrotechnical Exhibition opens in Frankfurt, Germany, and feature the world’s first long distance transmission of high-power, three-phase electric current.
🎒🐰💭’15 May 2010, Jessica Watson becomes the youngest person to sail, non-stop and unassisted around the world solo.
🎒🐰💭’14 May 1973, Skylab, the United States’ first space station, is launched.
🎒🐰💭’13 May 1950, The first round of the Formula One World Championship is held at Silverstone.
🎒🐰💭’12 May 1926, The Italian-built airship Norge becomes the first vessel to fly over the North Pole.