Europe’s Planck spacecraft found evidence that our universe is 13.8 billion years old.
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NASA's Columbia Space Shuttle was successfully launched from the Kennedy Space Center.
NASA's Galileo spacecraft made its first flyby of Earth.
The Space Shuttle Discovery completed the first docking with the International Space Station.
Apollo 1 test launch failed, and astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger B. Chaffee all died.
Two new moons orbiting Uranus were announced in Nature magazine.
