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The year 1966 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below. ==Astronomy and space exploration== * February 3 – The unmanned Soviet Luna 9 spacecraft makes the first controlled rocket-assisted landing on the Moon. * March 1 – Venera 3 Soviet space probe crashes on Venus becoming the first spacecraft to land on another planet's surface. * March 16 – NASA spacecraft ''Gemini 8'' (David Scott, Neil Armstrong) conducts the first docking in space, with an Agena target vehicle. * March 31 – The Soviet Union launches Luna 10 which later becomes the first spacecraft to enter orbit around the Moon. * November – Notable display of the Leonids over the Americas.〔(【引用サイトリンク】publisher=P. Jenniskens/NASA-ARC )〕 * December 15 – Janus, one of the moons of Saturn, is identified by Audouin Dollfus (it had been first photographed on October 29). * December 18 – Epimetheus, another of the moons of Saturn, is discovered, but mistaken for Janus which shares its orbit and they are not distinguished until 1978. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1966 in science」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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