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With the first space burial, Gene Roddenberry boldly flew where no human cremains had flown before on this mission.
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On Oct. 16, 1975, NASA launched the first operational GOES weather satellite. Here's why it mattered.
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The successful Antares launch restored U.S. cargo ship redundancy for NASA space station crews.
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On Oct. 18, 1963, a cat went to space! Félicette was a French "catstronaut" who became the first and only feline to fly to space. Here's why it mattered.
On this day in space! Oct. 19, 2016: Europe's ExoMars orbiter and Schiaparelli lander arrive at Mars
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The ExoMars 2016 orbiter survived the Mars arrival. Sadly, its Schiaparelli lander did not.
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Zond 8 flew a loop around the moon without a crew, but did capture stunning camera views of Earth and the moon together.
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India swung for the moon with Chandrayaan-1, its first deep space mission.