STS 44 Atlantis 10 was launched into space.
It was the US’s 7th spacecraft launch.
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Voyager 1 passed Pioneer 10 to become the most distant human-made object in space.
NASA's Explorer 9 satellite launched from the Wallops Flight Facility in eastern Virginia.
NASA launched the first-ever active repeater communications satellite.
Prospero became the first British satellite to have been launched successfully by a British rocket.
The first Space Shuttle mission was launched.
