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The space shuttle Atlantis lands at Kennedy Space Center following a 12-day construction mission to the international space station. |
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NASA delays landing the space shuttle Atlantis after engineers detect a mystery object outside the shuttle; weather at the Florida landing site also is a concern. |
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In London, scientists behind the Beagle 2 mission to Mars unveiled a new design for successor Beagle 3. The original Beagle 2 was scheduled to put down in the Martian region of Isidis Planitia on 25 December 2003. But despite many attempts to contact the probe, it was never heard from. |
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NASA's Genesis space capsule crashes in the Utah desert when its parachutes fail to open. The payload includes dozens of fragile tiles that had collected particles of the solar wind for about two years. |
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NASA's first mission to the planet Mercury in more than 30 years, the MESSENGER space probe, is launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida this morning. |
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The Dow Jones Industrial Average falls 88.11 to close at 9962.22, down 0.88%. NAS -39.97 1849.09 -2.12%. S&P -10.64 1086.20 -0.97% |
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Cassini-Huygens enters the orbit of Saturn. |
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Lt. Col. Mike Fincke of the U.S. Air Force and Col. Gennadi Padalka of the Russian Air Force spent a gruelling five hours and 40 minutes outside the International Space Station at a worksite above the Destiny science module on the U.S. side. They opened a cover and exchanged a failed circuit breake ... |
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SpaceShipOne, the first privately funded and manned rocket ship, briefly enters space 62 miles above the Earth after launch from the airplane "White Knight." then glides back to earth for an unpowered landing. |
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The Cassini-Huygens space probe does a fly-by of Saturn's moon Phoebe. |
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The Space Shuttle Atlantis docks with the Russian Mir space station for the first time. |
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The meteor 1994 XM1 passes within 100,000 km of Earth.
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NASA Astronauts begin repair of the Hubble SpaceTtelescope in orbit around the Earth. |
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Discovery of most distant galaxy (15 * 10 ^ 12 light yrs) is announced. |
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Svetlana Savitskaya becomes the first woman to perform a space walk as part of Salyut 7. |
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Challenger 2, the 7th Shuttle Mission, is launched making Sally Ride the first U.S. woman in Space. |
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Charon, a satellite of the planet Pluto, is discovered by astronomer James Christy using photographic plates. |
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Space Shuttle prototype "Enterprise" carries a crew for the first time, lofted from a modified Boeing 747. |
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Viking 2 enters Mars orbit. |
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US Viking 1 space probe enters Martian orbit following a 10-month flight from Earth. |
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The U.S. launches the first satellite of its Landsat Program, Landsat 1 into a near-polar orbit. It served to obtained information on agricultural and forestry resources, geology and mineral resources, hydrology and water resources, geography, cartography, environmental pollution, oceanography and ... |
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Apollo 15 lands on the Moon. |
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NASA launches Apollo 15, the fourth mission to land on the Moon and first to employ the Lunar Rover. |
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The Northrop HL-10 Lifting Body flys for the last time, with pilot Pete Hoag at the controls. |
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Japan places a satellite called Osumi into orbit around the Earth. They become the 4th nation to achieve this.
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The Apollo 11 command module splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean to be recovered by the American aircraft carrier USS Hornet (CV-12). |
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The Apollo 11 lunar module lands on the moon and Neil Armstrong becomes the first man to walk on the surface of the moon. |
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John Manke takes the Northrop HL-10 Lifting Body supersonic for the first time. |
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The Northrop M2-F2 Lifting Body crashes and tumbles on Rogers Dry Lake Bed when Bruce Peterson, its pilot, lowers the landing gear half a second too late. Peterson miraculously survives the crash to fly again, but loses sight in his left eye. The wingless, lifting body aircraft design was initially ... |
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The United States launches Gemini 6, which later makes the first rendezvous in space with Gemini 7. This is a critical step in preparing for the Apollo Moon Mission,
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