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On July 27, 1962, two Russian cosmonauts boarded a Soviet airliner and experienced weightlessness without going to space.



This was the first time cosmonauts completed zero-G training on an airplane. The Tupelov Tu-104 was a...

On July 26, 2005, the space shuttle Discovery launched on the first "Return to Flight" mission following the Columbia disaster that killed seven crewmembers a little over two years earlier.



A few seconds after launching from...

On July 19, 1985, a high school teacher named Christa McAuliffe was selected to become the first American civilian to fly to space.



McAuliffe won NASA's Teacher in Space Project and was selected from more than 11,000...

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