Last Updated on 3 January 2024

August events from the history of space flight

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42007 – Phoenix Mars Lander launched
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62012 – NASA’s Curiosity rover successfully lands on Mars
2014 – Rosetta becomes first spacecraft to orbit an comet
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82007 – Space Shuttle Endeavour and a crew of seven blasted off with teacher-astronaut Barbara Morgan aboard as a crewmember. Morgan was the first teacher in space since the Challenger disaster in 1986.
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101990 – Magellan spacecraft begins mapping the surface of Venus using radar equipment
111960 – Discoverer 13 recovers first payload from Earth orbit
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191960 – Soviet Union launches Sputnik 5, carrying the dogs Strelka and Belka
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241989 – Voyager 2 is first spacecraft to fly by Neptune
1990 – Space Shuttle Discovery deploys Hubble Space Telescope
252003 – NASA launches the Spitzer Space Telescope, the largest-diameter infrared space telescope ever
261981 – Voyager 2 begins transmitting images from Saturn
1989 – Voyager 2 begins transmitting images from Neptune
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301983 – Guion Bluford becomes the first African-American in space
1984 – Third U.S. Space Shuttle, Discovery, launched
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