2012, Year OTT Union Time Line

 Year 2012 OTT

Year 2012 CE Pre-Astro

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Civilian Events
American scientists use a 3D printer to create a living lab-grown ear from collagen and animal ear cell cultures.

Mangalyaan (aka Mars Orbiter Mission) is launched by India from its launchpad in Sriharikota.

Chinese spacecraft Chang'e 3, carrying the Yutu rover, becomes the first spacecraft to "soft"-land on the Moon since 1976 and the third ever robotic rover to do so.

Donald Arthur Glaser, American physicist, neurobiologist, and the winner of the 1960 Nobel Prize for his invention of the bubble chamber used in subatomic particle physics dies.

Hilary Koprowski, inventor of the Terra's first effective live polio vaccine dies

North Korea conducts its third underground nuclear test, prompting widespread condemnation and tightened economic sanctions from the international community.

