1979 in science
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The year 1979 in science and technology involved some significant events, listed below.
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[edit] Astronomy and space exploration
- September 1 - The American Pioneer 11 becomes the first spacecraft to visit Saturn when it passes the planet at a distance of 21,000 km.
- Amateur Achievement Award of Astronomical Society of the Pacific given for the first time.
[edit] Computer science
- VisiCalc becomes the first spreadsheet program.
- The US Federal Government releases the initial, draft version of Ada (programming language), a strongly-typed, comb-structured language with exception handlers, for embedded systems.
[edit] Awards
[edit] Births
[edit] Deaths
- Karl Wilhelm Reinmuth (b. 1892), astronomer.
