Last Updated on 3 January 2024
March events from the history of space flight
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| 6 | 2009 – NASA spacecraft Kepler launched. Its mission is to search for planets outside our solar system, in a distant area of the Milky Way. |
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| 13 | 1986 – Giotto becomes first spacecraft to make close flyby of comet nucleus (Halley’s) |
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| 17 | 2011 – Messenger is first spacecraft to orbit Mercury |
| 18 | 1965 – Alexi Leonov becomes the first man to walk in space, tethered to his spacecraft |
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