1985 In Science
The year 1985 in science and technology involved many significant events, listed below. Astronomy and space exploration * January 7 – Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency launches ''Sakigake'', Japan's first interplanetary spacecraft and the first deep space probe to be launched by any country other than the United States or the Soviet Union. Chemistry * The fullerene Buckminsterfullerene (C60) is first intentionally prepared by Harold Kroto, James R. Heath, Sean O'Brien, Robert Curl and Richard Smalley at Rice University in the United States. Computer science * March – The ''GNU Manifesto'', written by Richard Stallman, is first published. * March 15 – The first commercial Internet domain name, in the top-level domain '' .com'', is registered in the name '' symbolics.com'' by Symbolics Inc., a computer systems firm in Cambridge, Massachusetts. * November 20 – Microsoft Windows operating system released. Environment * May 16 – Scientists of the British Antarctic S ...
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