Last Updated on 2 January 2024

January events from the history of space flight

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11801 – Giuseppe Piazzi discovers Ceres
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52005 – Dwarf planet Eris discovered
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142004 – President Bush proposes a new space program that would send humans back to the moon by 2015 and establish a base on Mars
2008 – NASA space probe Messenger skims 124 miles above Mercury
152006 – NASA spacecraft Stardust returns safely to Earth with the first dust ever collected from a comet
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241986 – Voyager 2 begins transmitting images from Uranus
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271967 – Astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee killed in an accidental fire in a command module on the launch pad
281986 – Space Shuttle Challenger explodes shortly after liftoff
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311958 – U.S. launches its first satellite, Explorer 1

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