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The year 1976 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
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Astronomy and space exploration
- June 18 - Gravity Probe A, a satellite-based experiment to test Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity, is launched.
- July 20 - Viking program: The Viking 1 lander successfully lands on Mars.
- July 31 - NASA releases the famous Face on Mars photo, taken by Viking 1
- August 7 - Viking program: Viking 2 enters into orbit around Mars.
- September 3 - Viking program: The Viking 2 spacecraft lands at Utopia Planitia on Mars takes the first close-up, color photos of the planet's surface.
- September 17 - Space Shuttle Enterprise rolled out
Aviation
- January 21 - The Concorde begins commercial flights.
- December - The first flight of the F-16 Fighting Falcon.
Computer science
- January - The Cray-1, the first commercially developed supercomputer, is released by Seymour Cray's Cray Research.
- April 1 - Apple Computer Company is formed by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak
- November 26 - Little known company Microsoft is officially registered with the Office of the Secretary of the State of New Mexico.
Awards
Births
Deaths
- February 1 - Werner Heisenberg (b. 1901), physicist.
- April 21 - Carl Benjamin Boyer (b. 1906), historian of mathematics.
- May 31 - Jacques Monod (b. 1910), biochemist, winner of Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1965.
- October 5 - Lars Onsager (d. 1903), chemist.
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