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The Soviet Zond 5 spaceship is launched, becoming the first spacecraft to fly around the Moon and re-enter the Earth's atmosphere.
NASA announced the Next Nine astronauts selected for the purpose of landing on the moon.
Voyager I takes the first distant photograph of the Earth and the Moon together.
Sheri Moon Zombie, American actress and fashion designer
The Soviet probe Luna 3 transmits the first-ever photographs of the far side of the Moon.
Triton, the largest moon of the planet Neptune, is discovered by English astronomer William Lassell.
English astronomer William Lassell discovered Triton, the largest moon of Neptune.
NASA's Galileo spacecraft passes within 112 miles (180 km) of Jupiter's moon Io.
William Lassell discovers the moons Umbriel and Ariel orbiting Uranus.
William Lassell found Umbriel and Ariel, the third and fourth Uranian moons to be discovered.
Umbriel and Ariel, the third- and fourth-largest moons of Uranus, were discovered by William Lassell.
The discovery of the Plutonian moons Nix and Hydra, based on photographs taken by the Hubble Space Telescope nearly five months earlier, was announced.