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The year 1964 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed below.

1 Astronomy and space exploration

• March 20 - The precursor of the European Space Agency, ESRO (European Space Research Organization) is established per an agreement signed on June 14, 1962.
• July 31 - Ranger program: Ranger 7 sends back the first close-up photographs of the moon (images are 1,000 times clearer than anything ever seen from earth-bound telescopes).
• October 12 - The Soviet Union launches the Voskhod 1Voskhod 1 Mission Insignia Mission Statistics Mission Name Voskhod 1 Call Sign (Rubin "Ruby") Number of Crew Members 3 Launch October 12, 196407:30:01 UTC Baikonur LC1 Landing October 13, 196407:47:04 UTC52° 2' N, 68° 8' E Duration 1 day, 0 h 17 min 3 s N into Earth orbitFor other meanings of the term "orbit", see orbit (disambiguation In physics, an orbit is the path that an object makes, around another object, whilst under the influence of a source of centripetal force, such as gravity. History Orbits were first analyse as the first spacecraft with a multi-person crew and the first flight without space suits.

2 Computer science

• April 7April 7 is the 97th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (98th in leap years). There are 268 days remaining. Events 529 first draft of Corpus Juris Civilis (a fundamental work in jurisprudence) is issued by Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I 1348 Char - IBMThis article is about the International Business Machines Corporation; see IBM (disambiguation) for other uses of this abbreviation. International Business Machines Corporation IBM or colloquially, Big Blue (incorporated June 15, 1911, in operation since announces the System/360The IBM System/360 S/360 is a computer system family announced by International Business Machines on April 7 1964. It was the first family of computers making a clear distinction between architecture and implementation. The chief architect of the S/360 wa.
• John George KemenyJohn George Kemeny (Kemeny Janos) ( May 31, 1926 December 26, 1992), U. computer scientist and educator best known for co-developing the BASIC programming language in 1964 with Thomas Eugene Kurtz. He also served as the 13th President of Dartmouth College and Thomas Eugene KurtzThomas Eugene Kurtz (born 1928), U. computer scientist; co-developed the BASIC programming language in 1963/64, together with John George Kemeny Kurtz, Thomas Kurtz, Thomas Kurtz, Thomas. create BASIC (Beginners' All-purpose Symbolic Instruction Code), an easy to learn high level programming language that has been included on many computers and even some games consoles.