July 26

1957 – Actor Nana Visitor (Major Kira Nerys) is born.
1963 – Syncom 2, Earth's first geosynchronous satellite, is launched.
2016 – Solar Impulse 2 becomes the first solar-powered aircraft to circumnavigate the Earth.
2021 – The Galileo Project is launched. The project seeks to gather and report scientific evidence of extraterrestrials or extraterrestrial technology on or near Earth via telescope technology.