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** Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 9 ( James McDivitt, David Scott, Rusty Schweickart ) to test the lunar module.
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** NASA launches the Mars Global Surveyor.
** NASA launches Syncom 2, the world's first geostationary ( synchronous ) satellite.
** Apollo program: NASA launches Apollo 7, the first manned Apollo mission ( Wally Schirra, Donn Eisele, Walter Cunningham ).
** NASA releases the famous Face on Mars photo, taken by Viking 1.
** Wernher von Braun retires from NASA, frustrated by the agency's unwillingness to pursue a manned trans-orbital space program.
** NASA launches Lunar Orbiter 3.
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** Ranger program: NASA launches Ranger 9, which is the last in a series of unmanned lunar space probes.
** Skylab program: NASA launches Skylab 4 ( Gerald Carr, William Pogue, Edward Gibson ) from Cape Canaveral, Florida on an 84-day mission.
** NASA announces the names of 4 companies awarded contracts to help build Space Station Freedom: Boeing Aerospace, General Electric's Astro-Space Division, McDonnell Douglas, and the Rocketdyne Division of Rockwell.
** Chuck Yeager, American test pilot and NASA official
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** Futurama A Big Piece of Garbage NASA sends all of Earth's garbage into space in a cluster of a giant sphere aboard a rocket ( 2000 )
** NASA Space Flight Medal
** Basic Aerodynamics Research Tunnel, a wind tunnel facility at the NASA Langley Research Center
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** Node Module, a planned module of the International Space Station
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** Space environment-study of conditions that affect the operation of spacecraft
** Space food
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** Space Shuttle program: Last test taxi flight of Space Shuttle Enterprise.
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** STS-41-B: Space Shuttle Challenger is launched on the 10th space shuttle mission.
** STS-41-D: The Space Shuttle Discovery lands after its maiden voyage.
** STS-82: Tune-up and repair work on the Hubble Space Telescope is started by astronauts from Space Shuttle Discovery.
** Space Age – Sputnik program: The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite to orbit the earth.
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