Frederick Langenheim took the first photo of a solar eclipse.
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NASA's Discovery Space Shuttle carried the Hubble Space Telescope into orbit.
The final gasps of the Crab Head nebula were observed as it went supernova.
Carl Gustav Witt discovered the first near-Earth asteroid, 433 Eros.
The first-ever international crewed space mission was jointly launched by the US and the USSR.
Sultan bin Salman Al Saud became the first Arab and the first Muslim to fly into space.
