Luna 1 is launched.
The Soviet spacecraft was the first to reach the vicinity of the moon and orbit the sun.
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NASA's Atlantis Space Shuttle ferried the Magellan space probe into orbit.
The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope was launched into Earth's orbit atop a Delta II rocket.
World's First Geostationary Satellite is Launched.
Viking I lands on Mars.
The USSR's Luna 15 robotic spacecraft was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
