INPE - 1965

• Building Barreira do Inferno Launch Center (Natal / RN).
• First campaigns to launch sounding rockets, which take INPE’s payload on board, at Barreira do Inferno Launch Center (Natal / RN).
  
  
  
  Lt. Col. Janvrot, col Tedesco, Lt. brig. Eduardo Gomes (Aeronautic s Ministry) and Fernando de Mendonça on Barreira do Inferno opening day.
• The CNAE (National Commission of Space Activities) hosts the Second International Symposium about Equatorial Aeronomy (SISEA). This event was a result of the scientific activities in cooperation with NASA.
  
  
  
  Scientist team participating in II International Symposium on Equatorial Aeronomy - SISEA II.
• Astrogeofísica innovates the way of thinking about Cosmos and Earth, and provides Brazilian space applications.

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• A. Penzias and R. Wilson, while using a reflective antenna built for radio astronomy, find the primordial background radiation, one of the supports for the Big Bang theory defense.

• Soviet Venera 3 probe is launched, which reached Venus on February 16th 1966, maintaining contact by radio with Earth constantly. It became the first terrestrial object to land on another planet, although this has not been controlled landing.