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's Lunar Orbiter 2 launched atop an Atlas Agena rocket from Cape Canaveral in Florida.
The Soviet Union launches the world's first manned space station.
The US Air Force launched the Discoverer 1 reconnaissance satellite.
The last manned lunar flight, Apollo 17, returned to Earth.
A blue moon and a lunar eclipse occurred on the same day.
