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The year 1971 in Science and Technology included many events, some of which are listed below.

ASTRONOMY AND SPACE EXPLORATION

lift off for a mission to the Moon .

February 5 - Apollo 14 lands on the Moon .

returns to Earth after the third manned Moon landing.

is launched by the Soviet Union .

is launched toward Mars .

June 30 - The crew of the Soyuz 11 spacecraft are killed when their air supply leaks out through a faulty valve

. On July 31 the Apollo 15 astronauts become the first to ride in a Lunar Rover a day after landing on the surface.

enters Mars orbit.

COMPUTER SCIENCE

November 3 - The '' UNIX Programmer's Manual'' is published.

November 15 - Intel releases world's first Microprocessor , the 4004 .

PSYCHOLOGY

'' Studies In Animal And Human Behavior, Volume II '' is published by Konrad Lorenz .

AWARDS

Nobel Prize s

--- Physics - Dennis Gabor

--- Chemistry - Gerhard Herzberg

--- Medicine - Earl W Sutherland, Jr

Turing Award - John McCarthy

BIRTHS

DEATHS

March 11 - Philo T. Farnsworth (b. 1906 ), Television pioneer.