2016 – An unidentified object (@Feb 10) allegedly killed a man, injured three others, and left a four foot deep crater, after falling inside the Bharathidasan Engineering College campus at about 12.30 p.m. localtime. G. Baskar, principal of the college in Tamil Nadu’s Vellore district, told reporters “There was a noise like a big explosion” and “it was an abnormal sound that could be heard from at least 3 kilometers away.” — India Real Time NASA later reported that it was unlikely to have been a meteorite due to the type of crater.

2003 – Image, taken from below Space Shuttle Columbia just before her tragic ending, is released.

1991 Salyut-7, Soviet Union Space Station, burns up In Earth’s Atmosphere.

1971 – First golf shots taken on the Moon by Alan Shepherd (Apollo 14) He brought it home and it is currently on display at the US Golf Association Hall of Fame in New Jersey.

Lunar Golf

Birthdays

1927 – Gerard K. O’Neill, American physicist and astronomer. In the 1970s, he developed a plan to build human settlements in outer space, including a space habitat design known as the O’Neill cylinder. He founded the Space Studies Institute, an organization devoted to funding research into space manufacturing and colonization. (d. 27 April 1992)