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64 years ago, in 1962:

NASA announces that the Friendship 7 spacecraft will be lent to the U.S. Information Agency for a world tour, known as the "fourth orbit of Friendship 7".


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55 years ago, in 1971:

The USSR launches the first space station, Salyut 1.


51 years ago, in 1975:

India launches the nations first satellite, Aryabhata.


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25 years ago, in 2001:

The shuttle Endeavour (STS-100) launches, bringing Canadarm2 to the ISS.


25 years ago, in 2001:

Chris Hadfield, aboard the ISS, is the first Canadian to perform a spacewalk.


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14 years ago, in 2012:

The retired shuttle Discovery is delivered to the Smithsonian Institution's National Air and Space Museum in Virginia for public display.


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