America’s robot spacecraft, the Viking I, successfully landed on Mars.
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Apollo 1 test launch failed, and astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger B. Chaffee all died.
NASA launched the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, the first American lunar mission in ten years.
The Soviet spacecraft Luna I became the first to pass the moon.
NASA's NEAR Shoemaker spacecraft became the first space probe to land on an asteroid when it touched down on 433 Eros.
NASA's Opportunity Mars rover launched from the Florida Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
