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The year 1976 in Science and Technology included many events, some of which are listed below.

ASTRONOMY AND SPACE EXPLORATION

June 18 - Gravity Probe A , a satellite-based experiment to test Albert Einstein 's theory of General Relativity , is launched.

lander successfully lands on Mars .

July 31 - NASA releases the famous Face On Mars photo, taken by Viking 1

enters into orbit around Mars .

spacecraft lands at Utopia Planitia on Mars takes the first close-up, color photos of the planet's surface.

September 17 - Space Shuttle Enterprise rolled out

AVIATION

January 21 - The Concorde begins commercial flights.

December - The first flight of the F-16 Fighting Falcon .

COMPUTER SCIENCE

April 1 - Apple Computer Company is formed by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak

November 26 - Little known company Microsoft is officially registered with the Office Of The Secretary of the State of New Mexico .

Cray-1 , the first commercially developed Supercomputer , invented by Seymour Cray

AWARDS

Nobel Prize s

--- Physics - Burton Richter , Samuel C. C. Ting

--- Chemistry - William N. Lipscomb

--- Medicine - Baruch S. Blumberg , Daniel Carleton Gajdusek

Turing Award - Michael O. Rabin , Dana Scott

BIRTHS

DEATHS

February 1 - Werner Heisenberg (b. 1901 ), Physicist .

April 21 - Carl Benjamin Boyer (b. 1906 ), historian of mathematics.

May 31 - Jacques Monod (b. 1910 ), Biochemist , winner of Nobel Prize In Physiology Or Medicine in 1965 .

October 5 - Lars Onsager (d. 1903 ), Chemist .