1988 in science.html

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The year 1988 in science and technology involved many significant events, some listed below.

Astronomy and space exploration

September 29 - NASA resumes space shuttle flights, grounded after the Challenger disaster.
November 15 - In the Soviet Union, the uncrewed Shuttle Buran is launched by an Energia rocket on her maiden orbital spaceflight (this was the first and last space flight for the shuttle).
Asteroid 3994 Ayashi is discovered by Masahiro Koishikawa.
4407 Taihaku is discovered.
4539 Miyagino is discovered.

November 2 - The Morris worm is unleashed on the Internet.
November 17 - The Netherlands becomes the second country to get connected to the Internet.

January 11 - I.I. Rabi (b. 1898), American physicist, winner of Nobel Prize in Physics in 1944 for invention of the atomic beam magnetic resonance method of measuring magnetic properties of atoms and molecules.
February 15 - Richard Feynman (b. 1918), American physicist, winner of Nobel Prize in Physics in 1965 for his work on quantum electrodynamics.
May 8 - Robert A. Heinlein (b. 1907), "hard" science fiction author
May 25 - Ernst Ruska (b. 1906), Nobel Prize Physicist