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| Apr.19 |
Florida |
Tess: Planet-hunting satellite lifts off
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| Sep.15 |
Global |
Cassini for Saturn 'grand finale'
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| Aug.21 |
 Oregon |
Solar eclipse: Americans gaze at sky spectacular| A huge shadow cast by the Moon as it passed in front of the Sun swept across the nation, from Oregon in the west to South Carolina in the east | |
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| May.24 |
New Zealand |
New Zealand space launch is first from a private site
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| Mar.30 |
Florida |
Success for SpaceX 're-usable rocket' |
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| Feb.19 |
Florida |
SpaceX successfully launches rocket after Saturday setback |
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| Feb.14 |
Southern India |
India launches record 104 satellites in single mission
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| Jan.14 |
Southern California |
SpaceX rocket successfully lifts off |
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| Dec.8 |
Ohio |
John Glenn, first American to orbit Earth, dies aged 95
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| Sep.8 |
Florida |
NASA launched the OSIRIS-Rex mission |
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| Aug.28 |
Hawaii |
Nasa ends year-long Mars simulation on Hawaii |
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| Jul.4 |
USA |
Juno probe enters into orbit around Jupiter
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| Mar.8 |
Indonesia |
Indonesia witnesses totality as Sun is blocked by the Moon |
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| Feb.8 |
North Korea |
North Korean satellite is in orbit, says South |
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| Jan.23 |
USA |
New Shepard: Bezos flight 'demonstrates reuse' |
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| Oct.5 |
San Francisco Bay Area |
Facebook plans satellite ‘in 2016' |
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| Sep.28 |
USA |
Martian salt streaks 'painted by liquid water' |
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| Sep.27 |
Global |
'Supermoon' coincides with lunar eclipse |
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| Aug.28 |
Hawaii |
Nasa starts year-long isolation to simulate life on Mars |
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| Jul.23 |
USA |
'Earth 2.0' found in Nasa Kepler telescope haul |
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| Jul.15 |
USA |
New Horizons: Images reveal ice mountains on Pluto 
Pluto has mountains made of ice that are as high as those in the Rockies, images from the New Horizons probe reveal
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| Jul.14 |
USA |
New Horizons: Nasa spacecraft speeds past Pluto |
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| Jul.11 |
USA |
New Horizons: Last view of Pluto's spots |
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| Jun.14 |
European Union |
Philae comet lander wakes up |
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| May.6 |
Alabama |
German-born US rocket expert Oscar Holderer dies at 95 |
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| Apr.30 |
USA |
Messenger's Mercury trip ends with a bang |
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| Apr.14 |
USA |
Coloured Pluto comes into view |
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| Mar.27 |
Kazakhstan |
Kelly and Kornienko begin year-long space trip |
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| Mar.20 |
Norway |
Europeans look up to solar eclipse |
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| Dec.5 |
North Mexico |
Nasa’s Orion spaceship makes splashdown |
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| Dec.3 |
Florida |
Orion 'Mars ship' set for test flight |
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| Nov.16 |
European Union |
Pictures show comet probe 'bounce' |
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| Nov.14 |
European Union |
Philae comet lander back in contact
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| Nov.12 |
European Union |
Space probe scores bull's-eye with comet landing| A mechanical space traveler called the Philae plunked down on its target, 67P comet - some 310 million miles from Earth | |
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| Oct.17 |
Southern California |
Mysterious US spaceplane returns to Earth |
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| Sep.23 |
India |
India's first Mars satellite 'Mangalyaan' enters orbit
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| Aug.6 |
European Union |
Rosetta goes into orbit around comet Europe's Rosetta probe has arrived at a comet after a 10-year chase and manoeuvred alongside a speeding body to begin mapping
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| Jan.20 |
European Union |
Comet-chasing probe wakes up, calls home |
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| Dec.14 |
China |
Jade Rabbit rover rolls on to Moon |
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 China |
China puts Jade Rabbit rover on Moon China says it has successfully landed a craft carrying a robotic rover on the surface of the Moon, the first soft landing there for 37 years
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| Nov.9 |
Russia |
Olympic torch in first spacewalk |
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| Nov.5 |
India |
India launches rocket to Mars
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| Jun.19 |
China |
China gives first lecture from space |
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| Jun.11 |
China |
Chinese spaceship blasts off from Gobi Desert |
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| Jan.30 |
South Korea |
S. Korea launches satellite
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| Aug.25 |
Ohio |
US astronaut Neil Armstrong dies 
He set foot on the Moon on 20 July 1969. A statement from his family says he died from complications from heart surgery he had earlier this ...
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| Aug.5 |
USA |
Nasa's Curiosity Mars rover lands Nasa lands its one-tonne Curiosity rover on the Red Planet to study the possibility that this world may once have hosted microbial life
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| Jun.16 |
Western China |
China sends first female astronaut to space
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| May.25 |
USA |
Station grabs SpaceX Dragon ship |
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| May.22 |
Florida |
Launch success for SpaceX mission California's SpaceX has launched on a mission to re-supply the space station - the first cargo delivery to the orbiting outpost by a private...
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| Apr.17 |
Washington |
Shuttle makes Washington flypast |
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| Mar.15 |
North Korea |
North Korea to launch satellite
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| Oct.21 |
French Guiana |
Soyuz rocket launched after delay |
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| Sep.29 |
Western China |
Rocket launches Chinese space lab
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| Jul.21 |
Florida |
Space shuttle makes final landing Map of Kennedy Space Center Florida Space shuttle Atlantis has landed back on Earth, bringing to a close America's 30-year orbiter program
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| Jul.10 |
USA |
ISS and Atlantis astronauts greet |
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| Jul.8 |
Florida |
Space shuttle in historic final lift-off
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| Mar.9 |
Florida |
Discovery in historic touchdown |
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| Dec.8 |
Florida |
SpaceX craft finally launches
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| Nov.4 |
USA |
Spacecraft snaps images of comet |
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| Aug.16 |
USA |
Astronauts on spacewalk |
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| Jul.21 |
Northern England |
Scientists discover monster star |
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| Jun.4 |
Florida |
Successful blast-off for Falcon 9
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| Oct.7 |
USA |
Scientists: massive ring around Saturn |
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| Aug.8 |
USA |
NASA's Kepler shows early success |
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| Jul.20 |
Washington |
Obama hails Apollo 11 astronauts President has praised the 'heroism' of Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins who made the first landing on the Moon 40 years ago
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| Jul.17 |
USA |
Shuttle crew welcomed aboard ISS |
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| Jun.12 |
Florida |
Nasa cancels space shuttle launch |
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| Mar.9 |
North Korea |
N. Kor. Warns against satellite interception |
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| Mar.6 |
Florida |
Nasa launches Earth hunter probe |
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| Feb.2 |
 Iran |
Iran makes first satellite launch Iran has launched its first domestically made satellite into orbit from a Safir-2 rocket. Iran is subject to UN sanctions
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| Nov.30 |
Southern California |
Space shuttle touches down safely |
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| Nov.1 |
India |
India's lunar mission transmits pictures |
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| Sep.27 |
China |
Astronaut takes China's first spacewalk A Chinese astronaut has completed his country's first-ever spacewalk as part of a program that is starting to rival the U.St. and Russia
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| May.25 |
USA |
Historic pictures sent from Mars
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| Mar.8 |
French Guiana |
Europe's rocket launches to space |
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| Feb.20 |
Hawaii |
US missile hits 'toxic satellite' The US has successfully struck a disabled spy satellite USA 193 with a missile fired from a warship in waters west of Hawaii
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| Aug.8 |
Florida |
Teacher blasts off on shuttle mission |
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| Mar.3 |
Global |
Total lunar eclipse |
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| Feb.6 |
Florida |
Astronaut charged with attempted murder
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| Jan.22 |
Beijing |
China admits satellite shot down |
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| Jan.18 |
China |
Chinese test missile obliterates satellite U.S. official: The missile destroyed an orbiting satellite in a test that could undermine relations with the West
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| Dec.27 |
Kazakhstan |
Space telescope to hunt planets |
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| Dec.9 |
Florida |
Shuttle lifts off in night launch |
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| Oct.25 |
USA |
Spacecraft go to film Sun in 3D |
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| Oct.18 |
Washington |
US adopts tough new space policy |
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| Sep.17 |
Kazakhstan |
Lift off for woman space tourist |
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| Sep.9 |
Florida |
Space shuttle Atlantis blasts off
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| Aug.24 |
 Czech Republic |
Pluto loses status as a planet International Astronomical Union's (IAU) general assembly voted to strip Pluto of its status as a planet
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| Jul.17 |
Florida |
Discovery makes landing |
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| Jul.4 |
Florida |
Discovery space shuttle blasted-off
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| Apr.8 |
Kazakhstan |
Brazilian back on Earth from ISS |
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| Mar.31 |
Brazil |
Brazilian pioneer docks in space |
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| Mar.10 |
USA |
Mars orbiter reaches Red Planet |
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| Dec.27 |
Kazakhstan |
Europe launches Galileo satellite |
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| Oct.16 |
China |
Spacecraft returns to Earth |
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| Oct.11 |
Western China |
China launches rocket into space |
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| Sep.30 |
Kazakhstan |
'Space tourist' blasts off to ISS |
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| Sep.19 |
USA |
Nasa plans return to Moon by 2020 |
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| Aug.9 |
Southern California |
Discovery returns safely to Earth The shuttle has touched down successfully at Edwards Air Force Base 54 minutes before dawn
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| Aug.8 |
USA |
Shuttle return held for 24 hours |
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| Jul.29 |
Global |
Spacewalk to test shuttle repair |
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| Jul.26 |
Florida |
Shuttle returns to space
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| Jul.3 |
USA |
Nasa probe strikes Comet Tempel 1
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| Jan.14 |
European Union |
Huygens moon probe lands on Titan The space probe has touched down on the surface of one of Saturn's moons and is sending back signals
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| Dec.23 |
Kazakhstan |
'Critical' food launched to space station |
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| Oct.15 |
Russia |
New space crew docks with station |
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| Apr.18 |
Kazakhstan |
3 astronauts launched aboard a Soyuz |
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| Jan.24 |
USA |
Opportunity rover lands on Mars |
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| Jan.14 |
Washington |
Bush unveils vision for moon and beyond
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| Jan.3 |
USA |
NASA rover lands safely on red planet A robotic explorer is sending a signal that it survived the risky descent through the Martian atmosphere and bouncing landing
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| Oct.15 |
China |
First Manned Space Flight Ends in Success The space capsule carrying Yang Liwei touched made a 21-hour odyssey that took him around the world 14 times
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| Aug.26 |
Washington |
Columbia report faults Nasa managers
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| May.4 |
Kazakhstan |
Soyuz lands off-target, crew safe
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| Apr.30 |
USA |
Tourist enters space station
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| Mar.22 |
Fiji |
Mir destroyed in fiery descent
before year 2000
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| Jul. 20, 1969 |
USA |
Capt. Neil Armstrong walks on the moon Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that landed the first humans on the Moon, Americans Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin
| The third member of the mission, Michael Collins, piloted the command spacecraft alone in lunar orbit
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| Apr. 12, 1961 |
 Kazakhstan |
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin is first man in space Map of Baikonur Cosmodrome Kazakhstan A Russian Soviet pilot and cosmonaut; the first human to journey into outer space, when his Vostok spacecraft completed an orbit of the Earth
| The Vostok 3KA-3 (Vostok 1) spacecraft with Gagarin aboard was launched from Baikonur Cosmodrome. Gagarin thus became both the first to orbit the earth. His call sign was Kedr
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| Oct. 4, 1957 |
Kazakhstan |
Sputnik I launched Map of Baikonur Cosmodrome Kazakhstan| The Soviet Union launched the first artificial Earth satellite into an elliptical low Earth orbit. It was a 58 cm (23 in) diameter polished metal sphere | |
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| Feb. 19, 1473 |
 Poland |
Nicholas Copernicus born Map of Torun Poland A Renaissance mathematician and astronomer who formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than the Earth at its center
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