NASA’s Galileo spacecraft made its first flyby of Earth.
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After a four-month journey, the Venera 14 spacecraft landed on Venus.
NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft entered interstellar space, becoming the first artificial object to do so.
NASA's Atlantis Space Shuttle ferried the Magellan space probe into orbit.
NASA's Columbia Space Shuttle was successfully launched from the Kennedy Space Center.
The Soviet Union launches the world's first manned space station.
