Events
Time freezes. No matter where you are, there you are. All other actions flow back to a single instant that becomes a new benchmark, a new standard... at least until the next one. Each of these nominations represents a unique event that shall the ravages of time.
Nominations
Consider nominating any of the following candidates under the Events category. Highlighted candidates have already been nominated. To view the nominees, place your cursor anywhere over the text of the nominee and click (pop-ups must be enabled on your browser):
Michelson-Morley Experiment (1887)
Tunguska Event (Siberian Comet – 1908)
Solar Eclipse of 1919
World’s First Liquid-Propellant Rocket (3/16/1926)
Yuri Gagarin’s First Manned Space Flight (1961)
The Space Race (1957-1969)
Sputnik (USSR Launch – 1957)
Apollo 7 transmits first live TV broadcast from manned U.S. spacecraft (10/14/1968)
Man on the Moon (Apollo XI – 1969)
“Houston, we’ve had a problem”/“Failure is Not an Option” (Apollo XIII – 1970)
Do you have a favorite image or imaginative leap that you wish to nominate? If so, please submit your nomination under one of the eight categories on the left to the following e-mail link no later than March 31, 2009: