NASA’s Galileo spacecraft made its first flyby of Earth.
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The James Webb Space Telescope was launched from the Guiana Space Center.
NASA's Lunar Orbiter 2 launched atop an Atlas Agena rocket from Cape Canaveral in Florida.
An oxygen tank explodes on Apollo 13, leaving the spacecraft crippled.
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope began the multi-day process of unfurling its sunshield.
The Soviet spacecraft Venera 9 went into Venus' orbit – making it the first to do so.
