NASA’s Galileo spacecraft made its first flyby of Earth.
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NASA's Apollo 10 Spacecraft ran a test flight of the Lunar Lander Module close to the Moon’s surface.
The Soviet Union's Venera 3 space probe was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.
NASA's Columbia Space Shuttle completed mission STS-61-C when it landed at the Edwards Air Force Base.
NASA launched the Echo 2 experimental communications satellite.
NASA launched the 2001 Mars Odyssey space probe from Cape Canaveral.
