Last Updated on 2 January 2024
October events from the history of space flight
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| 3 | 1985 – Fourth U.S. Space Shuttle, Atlantis, launched |
| 4 | 1957 – Soviet Union launches Sputnik, the first satellite |
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| 7 | 1959 – Soviet Luna 3 takes first pictures of the far side of the Moon |
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| 10 | 2010 – Virgin Galactic, a private company, announces the successful first manned glide flight of the VSS Enterprise, a suborbital plane designed to take private citizens on suborbital space flights. |
| 11 | 1984 – Kathryn Sullivan becomes first American woman to walk in space 2010 – President Barack Obama signs legislation focusing NASA’s efforts on exploring Mars and the asteroids |
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| 15 | 1997 – Cassini spacecraft launched, its mission to orbit Saturn 1997 – Huygens probe launched to the moon Titan |
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| 18 | 1967 – Soviet probe Venera 4 collects data about the atmosphere of Venus |
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| 24 | 1998 – Deep Space 1 launched to explore asteroids and comets |
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| 29 | 1998 – John Glenn becomes the oldest man in space |
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| 31 | 2015 – A skull-shaped asteroid passes near Earth |
