The Space Shuttle Discovery completed the first docking with the International Space Station.
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The Luna 2 spacecraft by the Soviet Union became the first human-made artifact to land on the moon's surface.
After 14 years in space, NASA's Galileo spacecraft was intentionally destroyed in Jupiter's atmosphere.
NASA launched the Explorer 11 satellite atop a Juno II rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
World's First Geostationary Satellite is Launched.
The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope was launched into Earth's orbit atop a Delta II rocket.
