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** The American Galileo spacecraft makes its closest approach to 951 Gaspra, becoming the first probe to visit an asteroid.
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** The Giotto spacecraft flies past Comet 26P / Grigg-Skjellerup, gathering measurements about the comet.
** The Pioneer 10 spacecraft is launched from Cape Kennedy, to be the first man-made satellite to leave the solar system.
** Soviet space probe Venera 3 crashes on Venus, becoming the first spacecraft to land on another planet's surface.
** Surveyor program: Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum on the Moon, becoming the first U. S. spacecraft to soft-land on another world.
** U. S. spacecraft Mariner 2 flies by Venus, becoming the first probe to successfully transmit data from another planet.
** NASA's Explorer 1, the first American satellite and Explorer program spacecraft, reenters Earth's atmosphere after 12 years in orbit.
** The USSR's Venera 7 becomes the first spacecraft to land successfully on Venus and transmit data back to Earth.
** After a successful mission aboard Salyut 1, the world's first manned space station, the crew of the Soyuz 11 spacecraft are killed when their air supply leaks out through a faulty valve.
** Apollo 1: U. S. astronauts Gus Grissom, Edward Higgins White, and Roger Chaffee are killed when fire breaks out in their Apollo spacecraft during a launch pad test.
** Cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov, leaving his spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes, becomes the first person to walk in space.
** The Soviet manned space mission Soyuz 18a ends in failure during its ascent into orbit when a critical malfunction occurs in the second and third stages of the booster rocket during staging, resulting with the cosmonauts and their Soyuz spacecraft having to be ripped free from the vehicle.
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