Last Updated on 3 January 2024
August events from the history of space flight
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| 4 | 2007 – Phoenix Mars Lander launched |
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| 6 | 2012 – NASA’s Curiosity rover successfully lands on Mars 2014 – Rosetta becomes first spacecraft to orbit an comet |
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| 8 | 2007 – Space Shuttle Endeavour and a crew of seven blasted off with teacher-astronaut Barbara Morgan aboard as a crewmember. Morgan was the first teacher in space since the Challenger disaster in 1986. |
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| 10 | 1990 – Magellan spacecraft begins mapping the surface of Venus using radar equipment |
| 11 | 1960 – Discoverer 13 recovers first payload from Earth orbit |
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| 19 | 1960 – Soviet Union launches Sputnik 5, carrying the dogs Strelka and Belka |
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| 24 | 1989 – Voyager 2 is first spacecraft to fly by Neptune 1990 – Space Shuttle Discovery deploys Hubble Space Telescope |
| 25 | 2003 – NASA launches the Spitzer Space Telescope, the largest-diameter infrared space telescope ever |
| 26 | 1981 – Voyager 2 begins transmitting images from Saturn 1989 – Voyager 2 begins transmitting images from Neptune |
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| 30 | 1983 – Guion Bluford becomes the first African-American in space 1984 – Third U.S. Space Shuttle, Discovery, launched |
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