Luna 9 touches down on the Moon.
The unmanned Soviet spacecraft was the first to achieve a soft landing there.
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NASA completed a successful mission to map the Moon's gravity field.
NASA's Columbia Space Shuttle landed at the Kennedy Space Center, concluding mission STS-90.
NASA launched the Gemini program's tenth and final crewed spacecraft, Gemini 12.
The first Hughes Communications Galaxy satellite was launched into orbit.
NASA launched the Vanguard I satellite.
