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Spacecraft
2005 Deep Impact spacecraft is launched from Cape Canaveral

2001 Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) spacecraft becomes first vehicle to land on an asteroid (433 Eros)

1992 Galileo spacecraft passes North Pole of Moon (Peary Crater)

1992 Ulysses spacecraft passes Jupiter

1990 Spacecraft Ulysses launched towards pole of Sun

1990 U.S.'s Magellan spacecraft lands on Venus

1986 NASA releases transcript from doomed Challenger, pilot Michael Smith could be heard saying, "Uh-oh!" as spacecraft disintegrated

1982 Russian spacecraft Venera 14 lands and sends back data from Venus

1982 Russian spacecraft Venera 14 lands on Venus, sends back data

1981 2nd shuttle mission-1st time spacecraft launched twice (Columbia 2)

1980 U.S. spacecraft Voyager I sent back 1st close-up pictures of Saturn

1978 Soyuz 30 spacecraft touches down in Soviet Kazakhstan

1978 Soyuz 27 links with Salyut 6 and Soyuz 26 (1st time 3 spacecraft link)

1975 Soviet spacecraft Venera 9 soft-lands on Venus

1971 Soviet Mars 2 becomes 1st spacecraft to crash land on Mars

1971 U.S. launches 1st satellite into lunar orbit from manned spacecraft

1971 U.S.S.R. Mars 3 launched, 1st spacecraft to soft land on Mars

1971 U.S.S.R. launches Mars 2, 1st spacecraft to crash land on Mars

1970 Soviet Venera 7 is 1st spacecraft to land on another planet (Venus)

1968 1st live telecast from a manned U.S. spacecraft (Apollo 7)

1968 Soyuz 4 and 5 completed 1st docking of 2 manned spacecraft

1966 Soviet Union's Luna 10 becomes 1st spacecraft to orbit Moon

1965 1st atomic powered spacecraft launched

1962 U.S. Ranger spacecraft crash lands on Moon

1959 Soviet Luna 3, 1st successful photographic spacecraft, impacts Moon

1959 Soviet Union's Luna-2 is 1st spacecraft to land on the Moon

1959 Luna 2 launched by U.S.S.R.; 1st spacecraft to impact on Moon

1938 Frederic Rzewski, born in Westfield, Massachusetts, composer, Spacecraft

1900 Giacobini discovers a comet (will be 1st comet visited by spacecraft)



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