Last Updated on 2 January 2024
January events from the history of space flight
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| 1 | 1801 – Giuseppe Piazzi discovers Ceres |
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| 5 | 2005 – Dwarf planet Eris discovered |
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| 14 | 2004 – President Bush proposes a new space program that would send humans back to the moon by 2015 and establish a base on Mars 2008 – NASA space probe Messenger skims 124 miles above Mercury |
| 15 | 2006 – NASA spacecraft Stardust returns safely to Earth with the first dust ever collected from a comet |
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| 24 | 1986 – Voyager 2 begins transmitting images from Uranus |
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| 27 | 1967 – Astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee killed in an accidental fire in a command module on the launch pad |
| 28 | 1986 – Space Shuttle Challenger explodes shortly after liftoff |
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| 31 | 1958 – U.S. launches its first satellite, Explorer 1 |
