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69 years ago, in 1957:
A Soviet R-7 Semyorka is launched and flies 6000 km (3700 mi) to become the world's first ICBM.
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61 years ago, in 1965:
Gemini V is launched; first week-long flight, completes 120 orbits.
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54 years ago, in 1972:
OAO-3 (Copernicus) is launched with an X-ray detector and an 80 cm UV telescope.
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33 years ago, in 1993:
Communication is lost with the Mars Observer during interplanetary cruise phase, thus ending the mission.
30 years ago, in 1996:
The Fast Auroral Snapshot Explorer (FAST), the second spacecraft in NASA's Small Explorer program, is launched to observe and measure the plasma physics of the auroras at both of Earth's poles.
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10 years ago, in 2016:
Communication is re-established with the solar probe STEREO B.
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