The 101st Space Shuttle mission, STS-97, successfully launched from the Kennedy Space Center.
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The Soviet Union's Zond 1 space probe was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.
World's First Geostationary Satellite is Launched.
NASA's Lunar Orbiter 2 launched atop an Atlas Agena rocket from Cape Canaveral in Florida.
Odysseus became the first private spacecraft to land on the Moon.
The first Hughes Communications Galaxy satellite was launched into orbit.
