Kepler-37b

2013 – The smallest extrasolar planet, to-date, Kepler-37b is discovered.

2007STS 122 Atlantis Lands at Kennedy Space Center after completing a 14 day assembly mission to International Space Station.

1986 – The base unit of the Soviet Mir Space Station was launched.

1965Ranger 8 crashes into the moon after a successful
mission of photographing possible landing sites for the
Apollo program astronauts.

1962Lt. Colonel John Glenn, became the first American to
orbit the Earth aboard Mercury capsule Friendship 7 making three orbits in four hours, 55 minutes.

1959 – The Avro Arrow program in Canada is cancelled.

Canada's Avro Arrow