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This month in space history: October

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• 4 Oct 1957: Sputnik, the first manmade satellite, is successfully launched.
• 4 Oct 2004: SpaceShipOne wins the Ansari X PRIZE.
• 24 Oct 1998: SEDSAT-1 launched as secondary payload on Deep Space 1 mission.

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January

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• 3 Jan 2004: Mars Exploration Rover Spirit successfully lands on Mars.

February

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• 14 Feb 2000: NEAR enters orbit around 433 Eros, the first time a satellite has orbited an asteroid.
• 20 Feb 1962: John Glenn—the first American to orbit the Earth—completes three orbits aboard Friendship 7.

March

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• 18 Mar 1965: Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov (Алексей Леонов) exits Voskhod 2 to perform the first spacewalk.

April

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• 12 Apr 1961: Yuri Gagarin (Юрий Гагарин) becomes the first human in space.
• 19 Apr 1971: The first experimental space station was launched: Salyut 1
• 25 Apr 1990: The space shuttle Discovery launched the Earth-orbiting Hubble Space Telescope.

May

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• 14 May 1973: Skylab space station is launched to orbit aboard a Saturn V rocket.

June

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• 2 Jun 1966: Surveyor 1 lands on the Moon.
• 26 June 1978: Seasat 1 - First dedicated oceanographic satellite in orbit

July

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• 04 Jul 1054: Crab nebula is born in a spectacular supernova witnessed by Chinese astronomers
• 20 Jul 1969: Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin land on the moon.

August

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• 7 Aug 1976: Viking 2 enters Mars orbit.

September

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• 21 Sep 2003: Galileo ends its mission by entering the atmosphere of Jupiter.

October

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• 4 Oct 1957: Sputnik, the first manmade satellite, is successfully launched.
• 4 Oct 2004: SpaceShipOne wins the Ansari X PRIZE.
• 24 Oct 1998: SEDSAT-1 launched as secondary payload on Deep Space 1 mission.

November

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• 3 Nov 1958: Laika is launched into space.
• 24 Nov 1969: Apollo 12 splashes down in the Pacific Ocean after 10 day mission to Moon.
• 21 Nov 1963: India launches its first sounding rocket

December

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• 14 Dec 1962: Mariner 2 becomes the first spacecraft to fly by Venus.
• 24 Dec 1968: Apollo 8 becomes the first human mission to orbit the moon.