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1991 Compton Gamma Ray Observatory orbits Earth
1988 Soviet space shuttle makes unmanned maiden flight (2 orbits) 1969 Russia's Luna 15 impacts moon after 52 lunar orbits 1969 Apollo 9 launched for 151 Earth orbits (10 days) 1968 Apollo 7 (Schirra, Eisele and Cunningham) made 163 orbits in 260 hours 1966 Gemini 9 completes 45 orbits after rendezvous with "angry alligator" 1966 Luna 10 orbits Moon 1966 Gemini 8 launched with Armstrong and Scott, aborted after 6.5 orbits 1965 Astronauts Cooper and Conrad complete 120 Earth orbits in Gemini 5 1965 Gemini 4 completes 62 orbits 1963 Valery Bykovsky in Vostok 5 orbits earth 81 times in 5 days 1963 Gordon Cooper completes 22 orbits in Faith 7, ends U.S. Proj Mercury 1962 Scott Carpenter orbits Earth 3 times in U.S. Aurora 7 1961 Gherman S Titov, 2nd Russian in space aboard Vostok 2 (17 orbits) 1633 Galileo Galilei forced to recant Earth orbits Sun by Pope (but on Oct 31, 1992, Vatican admits it was wrong) 1571 Johann Kepler, born in Wurttemberg, Germany, astronomer, elliptical orbits |
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