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Neil Armstrong poses in his space suit as the commander of the Apollo 11 mission (Photo NASA)

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Yesterday, Neil Armstrong, the first man to set foot on the Moon, passed away. Neil Alden Armstrong was born on August 5, 1930 in Wapakoneta, Ohio. On July 21 he became the first man to walk on the moon, a milestone in the history of mankind.

Sally Ride in the Space Shuttle Challenger on June 24 1983 (Photo NASA)

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Yesterday Sally Ride, the first American woman to have gone into space, passed away. She was the first American woman to travel in space being in two Space Shuttle missions. She helped change a rather sexist perceptions in the world of science and astronautics.

The physicist Peter Higgs in 2009

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A seminar was held at CERN to announce the preliminary results of research in 2011 on the Higgs boson. Two experiments at CERN investigated the Higgs boson, CMS (Compact Muon Solenoid) and ATLAS (A Toroidal LHC Apparatus). During the seminar, the preliminary results of those two experiments were presented separately.

Official photo of Alan G. Poindexter taken on May 28 2006 (Photo NASA)

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Former astronaut Alan Poindexter died yesterday as a result of the injuries sustained following a jet ski accident. He was the pilot of the Space Shuttle Atlantis during mission STS-122 and the commander of the space shuttle Discovery during mission STS-131.