President Richard Nixon passed a new law that allowed NASA to build America’s first space shuttle.
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A chimpanzee named Ham became the first primate to go to space aboard the US MR-2 spacecraft.
Astronomer Richard Walker discovered Saturn's moon, Epimetheus.
German Astronomer Karl Ludwig Harding discovered the 3 Juno asteroid in the Asteroid Belt.
Two newly discovered moons orbiting Pluto were named Nix and Hydra.
Two new moons of Saturn were found in photos from the Hubble Space Telescope by Astronomers Amanda S. Bosh and Andrew S. Rivkin.
