Cosmonauts Titov and Strekalov narrowly escaped the Soyuz T-10 spacecraft explosion.
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The USSR's Venera 16 probe was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome on a trip to Venus.
NASA's Atlantis Space Shuttle ferried the Magellan space probe into orbit.
NASA's Discovery Space Shuttle carried the Hubble Space Telescope into orbit.
NASA successfully launched Exploration Flight Test 1 to test the Orion crew module.
NASA tested the Saturn I launch vehicle with a boilerplate Apollo spacecraft for the first time.
