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June Space History :
2 Surveyor 1 makes 1st US lunar soft landing (1966).
3 Ed White becomes 1st American to walk in space (1965).
200 inch Hale telescope dedicated, (1948).
6 USSR launches 1st humans in space station in Soyuz 11 (1971).
Gemini 9 completes 45 orbits after rendezvous with 'angry alligator'
,Agena with launch shroud still on, with Tom Stafford and Gene
Cernan (1966).
7 Gemini 4 completes 62 orbits (1965).
8 Soviets launch Venera 9 to Venus (1975).
9 Goddard patents rocket-fueled aircraft design (1931).
13 Pioneer 10 becomes 1st man-made craft to pass the orbit of the
farthest planet (1983).
14 Launch of Mariner 5 for Venus flyby (1967). Launch of Venera 10 to
Venus (1975).
15 USAF launches first "Big Bird" reconnaissance satellites.
16 Valentina Tereshkova becomes 1st woman in space (1963).
18 Sally Ride becomes 1st U.S. woman in space STS-7 (1983).
19 Andrian Nikolayev and Vitalii Sevastyanov return after 18 days in
Soyuz 9 (1970).
20 Test flight of 1st rocket plane using liquid propellants (1939).
21 Summer Solstice begins in Northern hemisphere.
22 Pluto's moon Charon discovered by James Christy (1978).
Royal Greenwich Observatory founded. (1675)
24 Jean-Loup Chretien, first spacionaut, lifts off with two cosmonauts
for an eight day visit to the Salyut 7 space station (1982).
25 Father of German Rocketry, Hermann Oberth born (1894).
26 First dedicated oceanographic satellite, SEASAT 1, is launched to
monitor currents, wave heights, and surface temperatures (1978).
Charles Messier born. (1730)
27 NASA X-15 flies at 4105 mph (1962).
29 Soyuz 11 docks with Salyut 1 for 22 days (1971).
30 Tunguska impact. (1908)