March 14th in Astronomy and Space Science
![]() | 1879 | German-American physicist and cosmologist Albert Einstein born. He won the Nobel Prize for his 1905 paper on the photoelectric effect, but gained everlasting fame for his General Theory of Relativity, published in 1915. |
![]() | 1960 | The USSR selects the first twelve cosmonauts: Pavel Belyayev, Valeri Bykovsky, Yuri Gagarin, Viktor Gorbatko, Yevgeny Khrunov, Vladimir Komarov, Alexei Leonov, Andrian Nikolayev, Pavel Popovich, Georgi Shonin, Gherman Titov, and Boris Volynov. |