Last Updated on 3 January 2024
July events from the history of space flight
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| 1 | 2004 - Cassini spacecraft sends back photographs of Saturn’s rings |
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| 3 | 2005 - NASA spacecraft collids with a comet half the size of Manhattan, creating an explosion designed to help scientists study the building blocks of life on earth |
| 4 | 1997 - Mars Pathfinder arrives on Mars and later begins transmitting images |
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| 8 | 2011 - Space Shuttle Atlantis becomes the last American space shuttle to be launched into space, bringing much-needed supplies and equipment to the International Space Station (ISS). |
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| 14 | 1965 - Mariner 4 transmits the first pictures of Mars 2015 - New Horizons is first spacecraft to fly by Pluto |
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| 16 | 2011 - NASA's Dawn spacecraft becomes the first manmade craft to orbit an asteroid |
| 17 | 1975 - American Apollo 18 and Soviet Soyuz 19 dock in the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project |
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| 20 | 1969 - Apollo 11 lands on moon, Neil Armstrong and "Buzz" Aldrin become the first men on the moon 1976 - Viking 1 sends first pictures from surface of Mars |
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| 23 | 1999 - Eileen Collins becomes the first female Shuttle Commander |
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| 26 | 1963 - Syncom 2 becomes first satellite to operate in geostationary orbit 2005 - Space Shuttle Discovery launched with seven astronauts aboard (America’s first manned space shot since the 2003 Columbia disaster) |
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| 30 | 1971 - Lunar Roving Vehicle "moon rover" driven on the moon for the first time |
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