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1970 in science

The year 1970 CE in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed below.

See also: 1969 in science, other events of 1970, 1971 in science, and the list of years in science.

Table of contents

1 Astronomy and space exploration 2 Computer science 3 Awards 4 Deaths

Astronomy and space exploration

• February 11 - Japan becomes the fourth country to launch a satellite into orbit.
• March 31 - Explorer I reentry (after 12 years in orbit)
• April 11 - Apollo 13 ill-fated space mission launched
• April 17 - Apollo 13 returns safely to earth
• August 17 - Venera program: Venera 7 is launched. It will later becomes the first spacecraft to successfully transmit data from another planet.
• November 17 - Luna program: The Soviet Union lands Lunokhod 1 on Mare Imbrium (Sea of Rains) on the Moon. This is the first roving remote-controlled robot to land on another world and was released by the orbiting Luna 17 spacecraft.

Computer science

• January 1 - Unix epoch begins at 00:00:00 UTC.

Awards

• Nobel Prizes
  • Physics - Hannes Alfvén, Louis Eugène Félix Néel
  • Chemistry - Luis F. Leloir
  • Medicine - Bernard Katz, Ulf von Euler, Julius Axelrod
• Turing Award - James H. Wilkinson

Deaths

• January 5 - Max Born, physicist and recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics 1954

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