Scott Carpenter orbited the Earth three times in the US Aurora 7.
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The first commercial communications satellite is launched.
Millions watch NASA spacecraft Ranger 9 crash into the Moon.
NASA's New Horizons space probe completed the first flyby of Pluto in the history of human spaceflight.
An oxygen tank explodes on Apollo 13, leaving the spacecraft crippled.
The Space Shuttle takes off on its maiden flight.
