1970 in science
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The year 1970 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed below.
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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 at 00:00:00 UTC.
Awards
Births
Deaths
- January 5 - Max Born (b. 1882), physicist and recipient of the Nobel Prize in physics in 1954.
- August 1 - Otto Heinrich Warburg (b. 1883), German physiologist and winner of the 1931 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.