Cosmonauts Titov and Strekalov narrowly escaped the Soyuz T-10 spacecraft explosion.
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The unmanned space mission Luna 21 was launched.
China's space agency launched a classified spacecraft into orbit atop a Long March 2F rocket.
The Soyuz 3 spacecraft achieved the first Soviet space rendezvous with Soyuz 2.
NASA's Apollo 14 mission landed on the Moon.
The Venera 3 space probe became the first human-made object to land on another planet.
