Zhai Zhigang (born October 10, 1966) is an officer in the People's Liberation Army Air Force and a CNSA astronaut. On 27 September 2008, Zhai became the first Chinese astronaut to spacewalk, completely outside the Shenzhou 7 craft. Read more
Gaston Tarry (September 27, 1843 - June 21, 1913) was a French mathematician. His most famous achievement being his confirmation in 1901 of Leonhard Euler's conjecture that no 6x6 Graeco-Latin square was possible. Read more
Sir Martin Ryle (27 September 1918 - 14 October 1984) was an English radio astronomer who developed revolutionary radio telescope systems (see e.g. aperture synthesis) and used them for accurate location and imaging of weak radio sources. Read more
Siegfried Fred Singer (born September 27, 1924) is an Austrian-born American physicist and emeritus professor of environmental science at the University of Virginia. Singer trained as an atmospheric physicist and is known for his work in space research, atmospheric pollution, rocket and sate...
Hans Hahn (September 27, 1879 - July 24, 1934) was an Austrian mathematician who made contributions to functional analysis, topology, set theory, the calculus of variations, real analysis, and order theory. Read more
On the morning of 27 September, 1956, Captain Milburn G. "Mel" Apt flying a Bell X-2 research aircraft, became the first man to exceed Mach 3, reaching Mach 3.2 (3,370 km/h) at 19,960 m. Read more
SS Patrick Henry was the first liberty ship launched. It was built by the Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation at their Bethlehem-Fairfield Shipyard in Baltimore, Maryland, and launched on 27 September 1941. Read more
Hair: The American Tribal Love-Rock Musical is a rock musical with a book and lyrics by James Rado and Gerome Ragni and music by Galt MacDermot. Hair opened at the Shaftesbury Theatre in London on September 27, 1968 with the same creative team as the Broadway production. Read more
The Bali Tiger (Panthera tigris balica), harimau Bali in Indonesian, or referred to as samong in archaic Balinese language, was a subspecies of Tiger which was found solely on the small Indonesian island of Bali. The last specimen definitely recorded was a female shot at Sumbar Kima, west Bali, on S...
New space radars to track small but deadly space junk Independent tests undertaken in late February by two US aerospace firms - Lockheed Martin and Raytheon - showed that a new ground-based radar technology can detect small bits of orbital debris. Both Lockheed and Raytheon are competing to win a...
Miner Wars 2081 - Closed Beta Released After three years of furious development, we are almost at the finishing line. Miner Wars 2081 has left ALPHA phase and is now officially in BETA. This is an exciting time. We've currently packed in 31 missions, which is about 10-15 hours of straight game play, bu...
Western student names asteroid in honour of Orchestra London Orchestra London is reaching for the stars after a Western University student named an asteroid he discovered after the ensemble. Quanzhi Ye, a Chinese graduate student in the Department of Physics & Astronomy, chose to name the as...
The International Astronomical Union (IAU) has approved a new name for a valley on the rim of Gale crater. Peace Vallis for a 35.24-km-diameter Martian valley located at -4.21°S, 137.23°E. The feature was named after a river in British Columbia and Alberta, Canada. Google earth file: Peace Valli...
