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Luna 1, first man-made statlite to orbit the moon, is launched by the U.S.S.R.
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U.S. Ranger 7 relays the first close-range photographs of the moon.
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The Einstein Observatory begins it's 30 day mission.
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Sally K. Ride is the first women to travel in space, on challenger mission STS-7
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Asteroid XM1 passes within 65,000 miles of Earth
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The NASA satalite Stardust lifts off for a rendoezvous with the Comet Wild-2 in Jan. of 2004
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Space shuttle Atlantis lifts off on a 12-day mission to outfit the ISS, completing the insultation of the Zveda module
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The expodition One Crew is launched on a Sonyuz transport to become the 1st crew of the ISS
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NEAR soft impacts on the asteroid 433 Eros, at 2 m/s. Signals continue to be recieved from the probe hours after the landing, conforming it's survival.
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Deep space 1 successfully completes its flyby of comet 19P/Borrelly
