March 05

1975 - Actor Jolene Blalock (Sub-Commander T'Pol) is born.
1979 - Detection equipment picks up a gamma ray burst originating from the Large Magellanic Cloud, leading to the discovery of soft gamma repeaters.
1982 - Venera 14, a Soviet satellite, arrives at Venus.
1998 - NASA announces that the Clementine probe orbiting the Moon has found enough water to support a human colony.
2021 - NASA names the landing site of the Perseverance rover in Jezero crater as "Octavia E. Butler Landing".