17 November 1970 on the moon slid the world’s first moonwalker. Interplanetary station Luna-17 on Board was launched on 10 November and 15 November on the orbit of an artificial satellite of the moon. Lunokhod-1 was designed to study the characteristics of the lunar surface, radioactive and x-ray cosmic radiation, the chemical composition and properties of soil Earth satellite.
The apparatus was equipped with two television cameras, x-ray telescope and a spectrometer, an odometer, a radiation detector and a laser reflector. During the first three months of the planned work, besides studying the surface, the Rover looked for a place for a future landing of the lunar module with the astronaut inside. Initially, the resource unit was designed for 3 months, but he was able to work out three times more, almost a year before September 14, 1971, when was the last successful communication session.
An exact replica of the Lunokhod-1 in the Museum
November 17, 1948 the cruiser Aurora moved on eternal Parking in St. Petersburg. It was a cruiser 1-St rank the Baltic fleet of the type Diana. He was named in honor of sailing frigate Aurora, which existed during the Crimean war. During the Russo-Japanese war, the cruiser participated in the campaign, which ended in the Tsushima battle. In addition, Aurora took part in the First world war.
A blank shot from the cruiser was the signal to storm the Winter Palace and the ship became one of the brightest symbols of the October revolution. In 1956, the cruiser turned into a Museum, but only in 2010, the cruiser was removed from the Russian Navy. In 2014, the Aurora cruiser, decided to renovate and bring it in running condition.
Cruiser Aurora on eternal Parking
17 Nov 2011 service is running Google Music. Cloud music service Google introduced during a special event, These Go To Eleven. In addition, it also showed and a new music store within Android Market that was a lot of speculation. The beta version of the service saw everything in may of the same year at Google I/O, but many details were not known.
By November, the service expanded to a wider platform which allows you to store your music in the cloud, as well as find and purchase your favorite tracks online. Alas, in 2011, Google Music earned only in the U.S. this is due to patent difficulties. To Russia, the service reached only in 2013, and this time it appeared a paid subscription, which allows you to listen to the entire collection of tracks from Google Play.
Google Play Music in 2011