2014 Event A live Ebola sample is mistakenly sent to a U.S. Centers for Disease Control laboratory that does not meet safety and security standards for handling the virus; a laboratory worker is being monitored for 21 days due to potential exposure 2013 Event Three astronauts begin a 15-day mission on the Shenzhou 10, the fifth manned spaceflight mission and the second and final one to space laboratory Tiangong-1 2012 Event The Curiosity rover controlled by NASA's Mars Science Laboratory, lands safely on the surface of Mars 2012 Event NASA's second Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory spacecraft is in orbit around the moon 2011 Event The robotic Mars Science Laboratory, the largest rover ever sent to Mars, is launched by NASA; the goal is to find evidence of past or present life on Mars 2011 Event The Tiangong 1 space laboratory announces it has scheduled to launch from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in China's Gansu Province 2008 Event Space Shuttle Atlantis, STS-122, launches to deliver laboratory to the ISS 1954 Event 1st microbiology laboratory dedicated, New Brunswick, New Jersey 1945 Event Allied troops occupy German nuclear laboratory 1937 Event U.S. Army Air Corps physiological research laboratory completed, Ohio 1930 Birthday Morag Timbury, director, Central Public Health Laboratory 1919 Birthday Bulent Arel, born in Istanbul, composer, electronic music, contemporary classical music, worked with Edgard Varese, designed, installed electronic music laboratory at Yale University 1887 Event 1st U.S. bacteriology laboratory opens in Brooklyn
