November

Last Updated on 3 January 2024

November events from the history of space flight

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2	2000 – William Shepherd, Yury Gidzenko, and Sergey Krikalyov become first resident crew of the International Space Station (ISS)
3	1957 – Soviet Union launches Sputnik 2 with dog named Laika on board
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12	2014 – Philae becomes first spacecraft to land on a comet
13	1971 – Mariner 9 probe becomes the first craft to orbit another planet: Mars 1980 – Voyager 1 reaches Saturn and begins transmitting images 2009 – NASA scientists announce that LCROSS discovered a “significant amount” of ice in a crater near the moon’s South Pole.
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17	1970 – Soviet automatic robot Lunokhod 1 lands on the moon with Luna 17
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26	2011 – NASA launches Curiosity, a large robot sent to explore Mars
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