🎒🐰💭’On 25 July 1976, Viking program: Viking 1 takes the famous Face on Mars photo.‘

🎒🐰💭’On 24 July 1911, Hiram Bingham III re-discovers Machu Picchu, “the Lost City of the Incas”: one of the New Seven Wonders of the World.‘

🎒🐰💭’On 23 July 2015, NASA announces discovery of Kepler-452b by Kepler, an exoplanet orbiting the Sun-like star Kepler-452 about 1,400 light-years from Earth in the constellation Cygnus.‘

🎒🐰💭’On 22 July 1933, Aviator Wiley Post returns to Floyd Bennett Field in New York City, completing the first solo flight around the world in 7 days, 18 hours and 49 minutes.‘

🎒🐰💭’On 21 July 1969, Apollo program: Apollo 11’s crew successfully makes the first manned landing on the Moon in the Sea of Tranquility. Americans Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first humans to walk on the Moon.‘

🎒🐰💭’On 20 July 1976, The American Viking 1 lander became the first spacecraft to successfully lands on Mars.‘

🎒🐰💭’On 19 July 1553, Lady Jane Grey is replaced by Mary I of England as Queen of England after only nine days on the throne.’

🎒🐰💭’On 18 July 1966, Human spaceflight: Gemini 10 is launched from Cape Kennedy on a 70-hour mission that includes docking with an orbiting Agena target vehicle.’

🎒🐰💭’On 17 July 1975, Apollo–Soyuz Test Project: An American Apollo and a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft dock with each other in orbit marking the first such link-up between spacecraft from the two nations.‘

🎒🐰💭’On 16 July 1969, Apollo program: Apollo 11, the first mission to land astronauts on the Moon, is launched from the Kennedy Space Center at Cape Kennedy, Florida.‘