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Photographer: Kevin W. Taken: July 21, 2008 Caption: Century of Flight Monument Pylon (1962-1966)
Additional Description:
1962
December 14 Mariner II interplanetary probe flies past Venus
1963
June 16-19
Valentina Tereshkova of USSR becomes first woman in space
1963 SYNCOM II
World’s first geosynchronous satellite launched
1963
August 22
North American X-15 gets altitude record of 67 miles at 4,159 MPH
1965
March 18
Soviet cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov becomes first man to walk in space
1965
June 3
First American space walk med by Edward H. White
1966 Lunar Orbiter
First U.S. Spacecraft to orbit and photograph the moon Submitted: August 10, 2008, by Kevin W. of Stafford, Virginia. Database Locator Identification Number: p31232 File Size: 2.155 Megabytes
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