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Its total length is 14m.
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First- man made rocket that orbits the earth. Keep in orbit until Jan,4th.
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Launched by U.S.S.R. It carries a dog name Laika for 7 days in orbit.
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First U.S satillites in orbit.
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Fails to reach orbit, lauched by Jupiter-C rocket
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It is launched by the U.S.S.R.
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Launched to a height 70,700 miles.
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Launched by U.S.S.R. First made satilite that orbit the moon.
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First man-made object ti hit the moon.
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Potograph 70% of the moon.
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Launched by U.S. First sucessful weather satillite
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Launched by U.S.S.R. Orbits the earth once and carries the first man in space.
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Launched by U.S.S.R. The first day-long Soviet space flight.
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orbits the Earth three times.
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Vostok 6 orbits the earth 48 times and carries the first woman to space.
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First space walk, the duration is 12 min.
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Made three orbits around earth and carries Virgil I. Grissom and John W. Young.
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space walk from Gemini 4. is 22 minutes
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Launched by France
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Apollo 1 land-of
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Venera 4 has sends a descent capsule.
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It was the first spacecraft to orbit the Moon and return.
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The frist man that step on moon
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Returns with high-resolution images of the Martian surface.
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阿波羅十三號遇到了一些困難，最後平安了。
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Driven by a 5-man team on earth and traveled on the surface for 11 days.
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Transmit for 23 minutes and the first probe to soft-landing on venus.
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Apollo 14 is launched by United States and landed on where Apollo 13 had landed on.
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It has come back to Earth at May 28, 1973.
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Soyuz 11 carried Cosmonauts G.T. Dobrovolsky, V.N. Volkov, and V.I. Patsayev to Salyut 1
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Astronauts David Scott and James Irwin drive the first moon rover.
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Pioneer 10 is launched on an Atlas/Centaur/TE364-4 towards Jupiter by the U.S.,
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Pioneer 10
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Pioneer 11 is launched on an Atlas/Centaur/TE364-4
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Skylab Workshop is launched by the U.S
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First crew to Skylab, Skylab2 are launched
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American Mariner 10 is launched
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Soviet Salyut 3, their first military space station, is launched. It remains in orbit until January 1975.
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October, 1975 - Soviet Venera 9 and 10 send the first pictures of the Venusian surface to Earth.
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June 22, 1976 - Soviet military space station Salyut 5 is launched, remaining in orbit until August 8, 1977.
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July 20, 1976 - Pictures of the Martian surface are taken by Viking 1, the first U.S. attempt to soft land a spacecraft on another planet.
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September 3, 1976 - Viking 2 lands on Mars on the Plain of Utopia, where it discovered water frost.
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August-September, 1977 - Voyagers 1 and 2 leave Earth to meet with Jupiter in 1979 and Saturn in 1980.
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September 29, 1977 - Soviet Salyut 6 space station is launched. Its crews include members from Czechoslovakia, Poland, GDR, Bulgaria, Hungary, Vietnam, Cuba, Mongolia, and Romania.
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September 1, 1979 - Pioneer 11 reaches Saturn, flying to within 13,000 miles and taking the first close-up photographs.
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April 12, 1981 - The first manned mission of the Space Transportation System (STS-1), Columbia , is launched.
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June 19, 1981 - The European Space Agency launches its third Ariane rocket.
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December 20, 1981 - The ESA launches a fourth Ariane rocket.
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Venera 13 lands on Venus, and provides the first Venusian soil analysis.
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April 19, 1982 - Soviet Salyut 7 space station is launched.
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August, 1982 - Voyager 2 completes its flyby of Saturn.
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May 13, 1982 - Soviet Cosmonauts Anatoly N. Berezovoi and Valentin V. Lebedev are launched in Soyuz-T 5 to rendezvous with Salyut 7, the first team to inhabit the space station. They return to Earth in Soyuz-T 7, setting a (then) duration record of 211 days.
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November 11, 1982 - The space shuttle Columbia's fifth mission, its first operational one, begins, deploying two satellites. Crew: Vance Brand, Robert Overmyer, Joseph Allen, and William Lenoir.
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January-November, 1983 - The Infrared Astronomical Satellite finds new comets, asteroids, galaxies, and a dust ring around the star Vega that may be new planets.
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April 4, 1983 - The space shuttle Challenger lifts off for its first mission (STS-6) and has the first American space walk in nine years. Crew: Paul Weitz, Karol Bobko, Donald Peterson, and Story Musgrave.
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June 18, 1983 - Sally K. Ride is the first U.S. woman to travel in space, on Challenger mission STS-7.
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November 28, 1983 - The space shuttle Columbia carries the ESA Spacelab-1 into orbit (STS-9). Its crew includes Ulf Merbold, A German and first ESA member in space..
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Humans finds new comets, asteroids, galaxies, and a dust ring around the star Vega.
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February 3, 1984 - Bruce McCandless takes the first untethered space walk using MMU from the space shuttle Challenger (STS-41B).
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July 17, 1984 - launch of Soyuz-T 12 carrying Svetlana Savitskaya, who becomes the first woman to walk in space.
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August 30, 1984 - The third space shuttle, Discovery, lifts off on it's maiden voyage (STS-41D). Crew: Henry W. Hartsfield, Michael L. Coats, Richard Mullane, Steven Hawley, Judith A. Resnik, and Charles D. Walker.
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October 5, 1984 - launch of space shuttle Challenger mission STS-41G carrying the first crew with two women aboard - Sally Ride and Katherine Sullivan. Sullivan becomes the first American woman to walk in space.
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December, 1984 - Soviet/International Vega 1 & 2 are launched, dropping probes into Venus' atmosphere before continuing to Halley's Comet.
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January 8, 1985 - The Sakigake probe is launched by Japan's Institute of Space and Aeronautical Science, becoming the first interplanetary probe as it rendezvous with Halley's Comet.
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April 29, 1985 - The Challenger carries the ESA Spacelab-3 into orbit (STS-51B).
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July 2, 1985 - The European Space Agency launches the Giotto spacecraft from an Ariane rocket. It encounters Halley's Comet in 1986, and Comet P/Grigg-Skjellerup in 1992.
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October 3, 1985 - The fourth space shuttle Atlantis takes off on its first mission (STS-51J). Crew: Karol J. Bobko, Ronald J. Grabe, Robert A. Stewart, David C. Hilmers, and William A. Pailes.
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October 1985 - Spacelab D1, the first joint German/ESA mission, is flown. Its crew consists of two German DARA astronauts, and Danish Wubbo Ockels of the ESA.
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January, 1986 - Voyager 2 flies past Uranus.
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January 28, 1986 - The space shuttle Challenger explodes shortly after liftoff of mission STS-51L.
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February 20, 1986 - The core unit of Soviet space station Mir is launched.
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March, 1986 - Astronomers discover an invisible gravity source that splits a quasar's light.
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March, 1986 - Spacecraft from the U.S.S.R, Japan, and Western Europe fly by Halley's Comet on it's 30th recorded appearance.
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April, 1986 - Astronomers find that our galaxy is smaller than they thought and the Sun is 23,000 light-years from it's center.
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February 25, 1987 - Supernova 1987A blazes into view.
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December 1987 - Cosmonaut Yuri V. Romanenko returns from space station Mir, having arrived there from Soyuz-TM 2, and sets a (then) space endurance record of 326 days.
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May 4, 1989 - Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched (STS-30), deploying the spacecraft Magellan.
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July 12, 1989 - Soviet/International Phobos 2 launched, which orbits Mars to study its surface, atmosphere and magnetic field.
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October 18, 1989 - U.S. launches the Galileo spacecraft from Shuttle Atlantis flight STS-34, which took infrared images of Venus, and images of the asteroid Ida, before continuing to Jupiter.
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April 5, 1990 - U.S. Pegasus rocket is deployed from a B-52 bomber, and launched the Pegsat satellite in the first demonstration of the Pegasus launch vehicle.
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April 24, 1990 - Space Shuttle Discovery launches on STS-31, deploying the Edwin P. Hubble Space Telescope (HST) astronomical observatory.
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August, 1990 - U.S. spacecraft Magellan arrives at Venus, where for the next year it took radar images of the surface.
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October 6, 1990 - Space Shuttle Discovery launches the Ulysses spacecraft with two upper stages, on mission STS-41. Ulysses flies toward Jupiter, to be slingshot towards the sun, to obtain data from high solar latitudes.
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February 7, 1991 - Salyut 7 falls from orbit and burns up over Argentina.
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April 5, 1991 - Space Shuttle Atlantis carries the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory into orbit. This new space telescope, built by NASA, was the first to provide an all-sky continuous survey in the gamma-ray and X-ray spectra.
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June 5, 1991 - Shuttle Columbia carries the Spacelab SLS-1 into orbit, to conduct investigations into the effects of weightlessness on humans. (STS-40)
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February 8, 1992 - Spacecraft Ulysses flies around Jupiter, on its way to the sun.
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May 2, 1992 - Space Shuttle Endeavour lifts off on its first mission (STS-49), repairing the Intelsat VI satellite. Crew: Daniel C. Brandenstein, Kevin P. Chilton, Richard J. Hieb, Bruce E. Melnick, Pierre J. Thout, Kathryn C. Thornton, and Thomas D. Akers.
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May 2, 1992 - Space Shuttle Endeavour lifts off on its first mission (STS-49), repairing the Intelsat VI satellite. Crew: Daniel C. Brandenstein, Kevin P. Chilton, Richard J. Hieb, Bruce E. Melnick, Pierre J. Thout, Kathryn C. Thornton, and Thomas D. Akers.
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A Sweden satellite
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December 2, 1993 - Space Shuttle Endeavour launches on STS-61, making the first on-orbit service of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST).
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January 25, 1994 - U.S. launches Clementine, a new DOD satellite that performs a lunar mapping mission using advanced ballistic missile defense technologies. It suffers a malfunction on May 10, 1994, ending its mission.
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February, 1994 - A Russian Cosmonaut, Sergei Krikalev, flies on board the U.S. space shuttle Discovery for the first time (STS-60).
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September 13, 1994 - Spacecraft Ulysses reaches a maximum Southern latitude of 80.2 degrees at the sun, proceeding towards the Northern latitudes, maintaining an orbital period of six years.
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October 12, 1994 - Spacecraft Magellan enters the atmosphere of Venus, burning up following the completion of its mapping mission.
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December 9, 1994 - Asteroid XM1 passes within 65,000 miles of Earth.
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February 6, 1995 - Space shuttle Discovery maneuvers to within 37 feet of Russian space station Mir, in preparation for a shuttle-Mir docking (STS-63). This is the first shuttle mission to be flown by a female pilot.
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March 22, 1995 - Cosmonaut Valeriy Polyakov returns to Earth after a 438-day mission aboard Russian space station Mir, setting a new space endurance record.
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June 26, 1995 - Space Shuttle Atlantis rendezvous with Russian space station Mir during a ten-day mission on STS-71. Cosmonauts are transferred to and from Atlantis, and Astronaut Norman Thagard is returned from Mir, having arrived on Soyuz-TM 21, and making a new American space endurance record of 115 days.
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September 1995 - Pioneer 11 ceases making scientific observations, its power source nearly depleted.
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November 12, 1995 - Space Shuttle Atlantis lifts off on mission STS-74, making the second docking with Russian space station Mir. It delivers two solar arrays, and a docking module for future Shuttle dockings.
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February 8, 1996 - Thomas Reiter becomes the first European Space Agency astronaut to make two spacewalks (both from the Russian Mir space station). His previous spacewalk was on October 21, 1995, and lasted 5 hours 11 minutes.
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February 17, 1996 - NASA launches the first in the Discovery series of spacecraft, the Near-Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) spacecraft, aboard a Delta II-7925-8 rocket.
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March 22, 1996 - Space Shuttle Atlantis lifts off on STS-76, performing the third docking with Space Station Mir. Astronaut Shannon Lucid was left on Mir, becoming the first female Astronaut to crew a Space Station.
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September 26, 1996 - Space Shuttle Atlantis touches down after mission STS-79. It brings back Shannon Lucid, who becomes the longest US astronaut in space, and the longest female astronaut in space.
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Lifts of for the fifth docking. Jerry Linenger replace John Blaha as the American crew member.
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Soyuz TM25 lifts off to dock with the Mir space station.
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Space Shuttle Discovery lifts off on the second maintenance mission for the Hubble Space Telescope
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Space Shuttle Columbia lifts off for the shortest shuttle flight in 12 years (four days).
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Space Shuttle Atlantis performs its sixth docking with Mir. Jerry Linenger is relieved by Michael Foale as the American crewmember on Mir. Atlantis returned to Earth on May 24th and Mir continued with its troubles
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Space Shuttle Columbia lifts off again to complete the flight aborted in April.
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Mars Pathfinder becomes the first probe to successfully land on Mars since Viking 2 in 1976.
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Space Shuttle Discovery lifts off for a 12-day mission to deploy and retrieve the Crista-Spas 2 satellite, which studied the Earth's middle atmosphere.
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Space Shuttle Atlantis performs its seventh docking with Mir to support the repair & upgrade process, and bringing additional experiments for the space station.
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Space Shuttle Columbia lifts off with three American astronauts, one Japanese, and the first Ukrainian astronaut, Leonid Kadenyuk.
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Lunar Prospector is the first NASA mission to the Moon in 25 years, and the first dedicated to lunar research since Apollo 17 in 1972. The spacecraft is placed in lunar orbit to make a careful spectroscopic analysis of the entire lunar surface, including its North and South poles, and soon confirms what the Department of Defense Clementine mission had found in 1994 - that trapped within some of the craters at the Moon's two poles is about 6.6 trillion tons of permanently frozen
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Space Shuttle Endeavour lifts off to rendezvous with Mir, the eight U.S.
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Space Shuttle Columbia lifts off on a 16-day mission, its 25th
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Space Shuttle Discovery lifts off on a 10-day mission, its 24th and the last shuttle docking with Mir.
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Space Shuttle Discovery lifts off with John Glenn aboard, first American to orbit Earth and at 77, the oldest man to fly in space.
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Space Shuttle Endeavour lifts off on its thirteenth space flight, with the International Space Station's second module, Unity
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Space Shuttle Discovery lifts off for the International Space Station.
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Space Shuttle Columbia lifts off, carrying the Chandra X-Ray Observatory into orbit.
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Space Shuttle Endeavour lifts off to carry out the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission, cosponsored by NASA and the National Imagery and Mapping Agency
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Space Shuttle Atlantis lifts off for the International Space Station for maintenance on the crane and a faulty antenna, installation of a Russian boom arm, handrails and upgrades to the ventilation system, and delivery of new batteries, supplies and equipment.
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Space Shuttle Atlantis lifts off on a 12-day mission to outfit the ISS, completing the installation of the Zvezda module.
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Space Shuttle Discovery lifts off on a 14-day mission to install the Z1 segment, the first piece of the space station truss, and a third docking port (PMA-3) for the Unity adapter
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Space Shuttle Atlantis lifts off for the ISS, carrying the U.S.'s Destiny laboratory module.
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Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on a 14-day ISS construction mission.
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Space Shuttle Endeavour lifts off for the ISS on a construction mission. The crew will install the mobile robotic arm on the station (Canadarm 2) and supply the Destiny laboratory module with new experiments, using the Rafaello logistics module.
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Space Shuttle Atlantis lifts off in the pre-dawn darkness for the ISS with the Joint Airlock which will enable space walks to be performed directly from the space station itself .
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Space Shuttle Discovery lifts off for the ISS with the Leonardo laboratory module and SimpleSat, an experimental low-cost astronomical telescope.
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Deep Space 1 successfully completes its flyby of comet 19P/Borrelly
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Galileo completes another flyby of Jupiter's moon Io, passing only 181 km from Io's south polar region.
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Space Shuttle Endeavour is launched carrying the Raffaello logistics module back to the ISS with new supplies
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November 19, 1996 - Space Shuttle Columbia lifts off on its 21st space flight, setting a new shuttle in-space endurance record of almost 18 days. This flight carries Story Musgrave, at that time the oldest man to fly in space at 61 years of age.
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It the last flight for the Discovery and it attached to a modified NASA747aircraft.
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October 10, 1983 - Soviet Venera 15 returns the first high-resolution images of the Venus polar area, and compiled a thermal map of most of the northern hemisphere.
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October, 1984 - Salyut 7's cosmonauts L. D. Kizim, V. A. Solovyov, and O. Y. Atkov set a (then) 237-day record in space. They arrive at Salyut 7 in Soyuz-T 10 and depart in Soyuz-T 11
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