NASA launched the Gemini program’s tenth and final crewed spacecraft, Gemini 12.
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The US Air Force launched the Discoverer 1 reconnaissance satellite.
NASA launched Apollo 9 crewed mission.
Odysseus became the first private spacecraft to land on the Moon.
NASA's Lunar Orbiter 2 launched atop an Atlas Agena rocket from Cape Canaveral in Florida.
Ariel 1, the first British-American satellite, was launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida, US.
