American Decades

Important Events in Science and Technology, 1990–1999

On April 24, the space shuttle Discovery puts the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) into orbit around Earth.
On May 22, Microsoft releases Windows version 3.0, which sells close to thirty million copies in a year; Windows becomes the industry standard in consumer operating systems.
On June 1, U.S. president George Herbert Walker Bush and Soviet premier Mikhail Gorbachev sign a bilateral agreement to stop producing chemical weapons and to begin destroying stocks of agents by the end of 1992.
In September, American geneticist W. French Anderson performs the first gene therapy on a four-year-old girl with an immune-system disorder called Adenosine Deaminase (ADA) deficiency.
In October, the Human Genome Project (HGP) begins to map all human genes on their respective chromosomes.

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