INPE - 1977

• Ionospheric bubbles over Brazilian territory. The first two publications in scientific magazines about this topic took place in 1980, despite the first detections of the bubbles have occurred around 1977 by airglow techniques performed by INPE's ionosphere group, and the first presentation of these bubbles have been made at the Ashay symposium acronym Atlantic and Southern Hemisphere Anomaly Year in June 1978, held in Alpbach, Austria.
• First Seminar on Space Activities (SAE), in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, which discusses developing a Brazilian satellite.
  
  
  
  Former School of Farmers Studies headquarters, where first SAE was held.

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The German scientist Werner von Braun dies in United States, largely responsible to develop missiles used by Germans in World War II and later, as the United States, to develop a lot of rockets used in space exploration, including Saturn V that allowed the first manned trip to the moon in 1969.