1961 Technology &
Gadgets
Seattle
finishes the Space Needle for the 1962 World's
Fair. It was the tallest structure West of the
Mississippi.
President
Kennedy announces the Apollo program to put a
"man on the moon" before the end of the decade.
The quasar is discovered by Allan Sandage at Mt Palomar.
Still a mystery, they are 2 trillion times
brighter than our sun (100 times brighter than
the Milky Way), very very far away (so very very
old), and thought to be galaxies in the throes
of creation.
X-15 rocket plane reached a
record altitude of 31.25 miles
Sony introduces the world's first
transistorized videotape recorder, SV-201.
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