🎒🐰💭’On 5 May 1961, The Mercury program: Mercury-Redstone 3: Alan Shepard becomes the first American to travel into outer space, on a sub-orbital flight.
🎒🐰💭’On 1 May 1978, Japan’s Naomi Uemura, travelling by dog sled, becomes the first person to reach the North Pole alone.
🎒🐰💭’On 26 April 1956, SS Ideal X, the world’s first successful container ship, leaves Port Newark, New Jersey for Houston, Texas.
🎒🐰💭’On 25 April 1983, Pioneer 10 travels beyond Pluto’s orbit.
🎒🐰💭’On 24 April 1895, Joshua Slocum, the first person to sail single-handedly around the world, sets sail from Boston, Massachusetts aboard the sloop “Spray”.
🎒🐰💭’On 21 April 1992, The first discoveries of extrasolar planets are announced by astronomers Aleksander Wolszczan and Dale Frail. They discovered two planets orbiting the pulsar PSR 1257+12.
🎒🐰💭’On 20 April 1972, Apollo 16, commanded by John Young, lands on the moon.
🎒🐰💭’On 19 April 1971, Launch of Salyut 1, the first space station.
🎒🐰💭’On 17 April, 2014, NASA’s Kepler confirms the discovery of the first Earth-size planet in the habitable zone of another star.
🎒🐰💭’On 16 April, 1972, Apollo program: The launch of Apollo 16 from Cape Canaveral, Florida.