President Richard Nixon passed a new law that allowed NASA to build America’s first space shuttle.
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Osiris became the first discovered exoplanet with an atmosphere.
The arrest of five White House operatives sets off the Watergate scandal.
Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in space.
Europe's Planck spacecraft found evidence that our universe is 13.8 billion years old.
The Mariner 1 Space Probe was forced to self-destruct minutes after launching.
