NASA launched the Gemini program’s tenth and final crewed spacecraft, Gemini 12.
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The European Space Agency integrated its SMART-1 spacecraft with its dedicated launching rocket.
Luna 1 is launched.
Enos, the chimpanzee, was launched into space on the Mercury-Atlas 5 Mission.
Landsat 1 launched.
NASA's Discovery Space Shuttle launched from the Kennedy Space Center on mission STS-119.
