NHAS - Today in Astronomy History

	1961	Soviet cosmonaut Gherman Titov becomes the second person to orbit the earth on board the Vostok 2 capsule. His 16 orbits take 25 hours 18 minutes making him the first person to spend more than 24 hours in space and the first person to sleep in space.
	1967	British astronomers Antony Hewish and Jocelyn Bell Burnell of Cambridge University use a radio telescope to study a scintillation effect on radio sources caused by clouds of electrons in the solar wind. One of their recordings shows a regularly pulsing source with a period of 1.337 seconds in the wrong part of the sky, away from the sun. Initially it was thought that the signal was human-made, from a spacecraft, or evidence of an extraterrestrial civilization. Its true nature, the discovery of the first pulsar, is not determined until 6 months later.