NASA’s Voyager 2 came into close contact with Uranus and captured many images that uncovered 11 new moons.
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NASA's New Horizons space probe completed the first flyby of Pluto in the history of human spaceflight.
The Soyuz 3 spacecraft achieved the first Soviet space rendezvous with Soyuz 2.
The Soviet spacecraft Mars 6 was launched.
The 101st Space Shuttle mission, STS-97, successfully launched from the Kennedy Space Center.
NASA launched the Columbia Space Shuttle for its final test flight, STS-4.
