Last Updated on 3 January 2024

June events from the history of space flight

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21966 – Surveyor 1 becomes the first American spacecraft to land on the moon
31965 – Ed White becomes the first American to walk in space
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132010 – Hayabusa becomes first spacecraft to return to Earth with samples from an asteroid
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161962 – Valentina Nikolayeva Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space
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182009 – NASA launches the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS). The mission is to confirm the presence or absence of ice on the moon.
191983 – Sally Ride becomes first American woman in space, on Challenger’s second mission
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212004 – first privately funded manned spacecraft to achieve suborbital flight above 100 km (62 miles)
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