Britannica On This Day October 22 2023

This Day in History: October 22

Featured Event

2008





Chandrayaan-1, India's first lunar space probe, was launched, and it later found water in the Moon's atmosphere.


Chandrayaan
Indian lunar space probe series




Chandrayaan, series of Indian lunar space probes. Chandrayaan-1 (chandrayaan is Hindi for “moon craft”), the first lunar space probe of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO), found water on the Moon. It mapped the Moon in infrared, visible, and X-ray light from lunar orbit and used reflected radiation to prospect for various elements, minerals, and ice. It operated in 2008–09. Chandrayaan-2, which launched in 2019, was designed to be ISRO’s first lunar lander. Chandrayaan-3 was ISRO’s first lunar lander and touched down in the Moon’s south polar region in 2023. A Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle launched the 590-kg (1,300-pound) Chandrayaan-1 ...(100 of 681 words)


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Featured Biography

Timothy Leary
American psychologist







Timothy Leary, in full Timothy Francis Leary, (born October 22, 1920, Springfield, Massachusetts, U.S.—died May 31, 1996, Beverly Hills, California), American psychologist and author who was a leading advocate for the use of LSD and other psychoactive drugs.
Leary, the son of a U.S. Army officer, was raised in a Catholic household and attended the College of the Holy Cross, the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, and the University of Alabama (B.A., 1943). In 1950 he received a doctorate in psychology from the University of California at Berkeley, where he was an assistant professor until 1955. During the 1950s Leary developed an egalitarian model for interaction between the psychotherapist and the patient, promoted new techniques of group therapy, and published a system for classifying interpersonal behaviour. He acquired a reputation as a promising young scholar and was appointed to the position of lecturer at Harvard University in 1959.


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