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| 1975 |
| | | Astronauts Tom Stafford and Aleksei Leonov shake hands when their Apollo and Soyuz craft successfully dock in space | |
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| 1976 |
| | | The landing section of the US spacecraft Viking 1 detaches from the orbiter and makes a successful landing on Mars | |
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| 1976 |
| | | 333 days after leaving Earth, the landing section of the US spacecraft Viking 2 touches down on Mars and begins sending back photographs | |
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| 1986 |
| | | The US Space shuttle Challenger explodes with seven on board less than two minutes after lift-off | |
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| 1986 |
| | | The Soviets launch the first module (the living quarters) of their Mir Space Station | |
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| 1989 |
| | | The US unmanned spacecraft Galileo is launched from a space shuttle on a six-year voyage to Jupiter | |
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| 1990 |
| | | The Hubble Space Telescope is launched from a space shuttle and goes into orbit 370 miles (600 km) above the earth | |
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| 1991 |
| | | The US spacecraft Galileo provides scientists with close-up photographs of two asteroids, Gaspra and Ida | |
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| 1995 |
| | | An atmospheric probe, released from the US spacecraft Galileo, enters the atmosphere of the planet Jupiter | |
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| 1997 |
| | | Sojourner, a robot roving vehicle, detaches from Mars Pathfinder to analyse the surface of the planet | |
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