Robert H. Lawrence, Jr. was selected as the first African-American astronaut.
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The USA's first space station, Skylab, was launched into Earth's orbit.
NASA's Apollo 11 orbited the moon.
Frederick Langenheim took the first photo of a solar eclipse.
The Mariner 1 Space Probe was forced to self-destruct minutes after launching.
Space probe Osiris-Rex by NASA was launched to collect rock samples from the Bennu asteroid.
