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A space shuttle challenger is launched.
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Sally Ride was the first american astronaut on the flight of the sts-7 flight challenger.
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The STS-8 Challenger flight introduces Guion S. Bluford, the first African-American astronaut to travel in space.
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First flight of space shuttle Discovery.
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First flight of space shuttle Atlantis.
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Atlantis deploys a classified satellite for the Department of Defense.
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Challenger explodes 73 seconds into the flight.
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The first shuttle flight after the Challenger disaster. Discovery launches a satellite.
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Atlantis launches the Jupiter-bound Galileo spacecraft.
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Discovery mission launches the Hubble Space Telescope.
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Endeavour’s maiden flight and the first 3-person spacewalk.
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Sergei Krikalev becomes the first Russian cosmonaut on a U.S. shuttle mission.
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Eileen Collins becomes the first woman pilot, flying Discovery past the Russian space station Mir.
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Space shuttle Atlantis docks with the Russian Mir space station.
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Fifteen minutes before completing its 28th mission, Columbia breaks up with the loss of all seven crew members.
