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We honor the 38 fallen #OTD in 2011.
The air crewmembers, SEALs, PJ and CCT, enablers, Afghan commandos, interpreter and multi-purpose canine were killed when their CH-47 Chinook helicopter, call sign Extortion 17, was downed by a Taliban RPG fire in Afghanistan’s Tangi Valley.
8:40 AM · Aug 6, 2023
https://twitter.com/USSOCOM/status/1688168088020086785
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The first U.S. satellite to photograph the Earth is launched
From the Atlantic Missile Range in Cape Canaveral, Florida, the U.S. unmanned spacecraft Explorer 6 is launched into an orbit around the earth. The spacecraft, commonly known as the “Paddlewheel” satellite, featured a photocell scanner that transmitted a crude picture of the earth’s surface and cloud cover from a distance of 17,000 miles. The photo, received in Hawaii, took nearly 40 minutes to transmit.
Released by NASA in September, the first photograph ever taken of the earth by a U.S. satellite depicted a crescent shape of part of the planet in sunlight. It was Mexico, captured by Explorer 6 as it raced westward over the earth at speeds in excess of 20,000 miles an hour.
https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/u-s-satellite-photographs-earth
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