Last Updated on 3 January 2024

March events from the history of space flight

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62009 – NASA spacecraft Kepler launched. Its mission is to search for planets outside our solar system, in a distant area of the Milky Way.
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131986 – Giotto becomes first spacecraft to make close flyby of comet nucleus (Halley’s)
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172011 – Messenger is first spacecraft to orbit Mercury
181965 – Alexi Leonov becomes the first man to walk in space, tethered to his spacecraft
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