October

Last Updated on 2 January 2024

October events from the history of space flight

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3	1985 – Fourth U.S. Space Shuttle, Atlantis, launched
4	1957 – Soviet Union launches Sputnik, the first satellite
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7	1959 – Soviet Luna 3 takes first pictures of the far side of the Moon
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10	2010 – Virgin Galactic, a private company, announces the successful first manned glide flight of the VSS Enterprise, a suborbital plane designed to take private citizens on suborbital space flights.
11	1984 – Kathryn Sullivan becomes first American woman to walk in space 2010 – President Barack Obama signs legislation focusing NASA’s efforts on exploring Mars and the asteroids
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15	1997 – Cassini spacecraft launched, its mission to orbit Saturn 1997 – Huygens probe launched to the moon Titan
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18	1967 – Soviet probe Venera 4 collects data about the atmosphere of Venus
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24	1998 – Deep Space 1 launched to explore asteroids and comets
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29	1998 – John Glenn becomes the oldest man in space
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31	2015 – A skull-shaped asteroid passes near Earth