Today, 49 years ago the NASA Pioneer 11 spacecraft launches to Jupiter and Saturn
50 years ago, Alan Shepard shanked the first golf shot on the Moon into a crater, but estimated his second traveled about 600 feet (recent research suggests it was closer to 120 feet). Meanwhile, a regular swing (on Earth) by an average PGA Tour pro would send a lunar tee shot about 4,170 feet.
Missing Darwin notebooks anonymously returned to Cambridge University Library - 22 years after being stolen