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launch of the Japanese lunar probe hiten
The Hiten probe (known before launch as MUSES-A) built by the Institute of Space and Aeronautical Science in Japan was launched on January 24, 1990. The probe entered lunar orbit and released a small orbiter called the Hagoromo. -
the Galileo spacecraft, on its way to Jupiter, flies over the asteroid (951) Gaspra.
The Galileo space mission was a NASA space agency mission to the planet Jupiter that consisted of an orbiter and a probe. The mission was launched on October 18, 1989. The probe entered Jupiter's atmosphere on December 7, 1995, plunging about 200 kilometers into the atmosphere until it was destroyed by high pressures and temperatures, but transmitting important data from chemical composition and meteorological activity of Jupiter -
silicone prostheses are banned in the united states
The FDA banned silicone implants in 1992, thirty years after they began to be used due to the lack of data that guaranteed the safety of prostheses and the fear of a direct relationship between them and certain diseases, without the studies carried out having found a direct link -
European launch of the Sega Mega-CD peripheral.
Sega Mega-CD is a hardware peripheral of the Sega Mega Drive console produced by Sega. In the United States it was called the Sega CD. Sega was keeping development under wraps, nor were the video game developers aware of the Mega-CD, which was revealed at the Tokyo Toy Show in Japan. The Mega-CD was Sega's attempt to compete in Japan with the PC Engine CD, in the rest of the world they would have to do with a booming SNES. -
Mosaic Netscape 0.9, a web browser, is released on October 13, 1994
Netscape Navigator was a web browser, the first commercial product of the Netscape Communications company created by Marc Andreessen (one of the authors of Mosaic) when he was at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA: National Center of Applications for Supercomputers) of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Netscape was the first commercial browser. -
Robert Gallo identifies natural inhibitors in human cells capable of slowing the progression of HIV (the virus that causes AIDS).
Robert Charles Gallo (Waterbury, Connecticut, March 23, 1937) is an American-born biomedical researcher best known for his particular role in hindering the identification of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) as the agent responsible for acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS). , although his contribution arouses controversy due to whether it was discovered before by him or by Luc Montagnier -
In the United States, NASA announces that the meteorite ALH 84001
ALH 84001 (Allan Hills 84001) is a meteorite of Martian origin that created great controversy due to the discovery of clues that suggest the possible existence of single-celled life on the planet Mars.
Based on the study of bacterial-like formations inside, on August 7, 1996, NASA announced3 that a possible early microscopic life form could have existed on Mars more than 3 billion years ago. -
in Roslin (Scotland) it is announced that an adult sheep named Dolly, born in July 1996, has been cloned.
Dolly the sheep (July 5, 1996 - February 14, 2003) was the first mammal to be cloned from an adult cell. Its creators were the scientists of the Roslin Institute of Edinburgh (Scotland), Ian Wilmut and Keith Campbell. His birth was not announced until seven months later, on February 22, 1997.1 The stuffed remains of Dolly the sheep are on display in the National Museum of Scotland -
in Canada they find the largest coprolite (fossil of excrement) of dinosaurs in the world.
They were first described in 1829 by William Buckland. Their main importance lies in the fact that they constitute direct evidence of eating habits and predation of extinct species, especially carnivores, since it is easier to find undigested bone remains than vegetables, (although this is not impossible), establishing in many cases direct predator-predator relationships. prey, which are otherwise only theoretical. -
The first version of GNOME, an alternative to the KDE desktop, is released.
GNOME is a desktop environment and development infrastructure for GNU / Linux, Unix and Unix derivatives such as BSD or Solaris operating systems; composed entirely of free software.
The project was started by Mexican programmers Miguel de Icaza and Federico Mena in August 1999 and is an official part of the GNU project. It was born as an alternative to KDE under the name GNU Network Object Model Environment.