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Apollo program: The Apollo 16 Lunar Module Orion, commanded by John Young and piloted by Charles Duke, lands on the Moon.
Astronauts John Young and Charles Duke fly Apollo 16's Apollo Lunar Module to the Moon's surface, the fifth NASA Apollo Program crewed lunar landing.
NASA's Ranger 4 spacecraft crashes into the Moon.
The Dark Side of the Moon by Pink Floyd, recorded in Abbey Road Studios goes to number one on the US Billboard chart, beginning a record-breaking 741-week chart run.
The Soviet spacecraft Luna 5 crashes on the Moon.
A second photo from the Hubble Space Telescope confirms that Pluto has two additional moons, Nix and Hydra.
The asteroid 1998 QE2 and its moon make their closest approach to Earth for the next two centuries.
Surveyor program: Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum on the Moon, becoming the first U.S. spacecraft to soft-land on another world.
Cassini–Huygens makes its closest flyby of the Saturn moon Phoebe.
Apollo 10's Lunar Module flies within 8.4 nautical miles (16 km) of the Moon's surface.
�joint session of the U.S. Congress, that the United States "should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the Moon and returning him safely to the Earth."
Apollo program: Apollo 10 returns to Earth after a successful eight-day test of all the components needed for the forthcoming first crewed Moon landing.
Near-Earth asteroid 2002 MN misses the Earth by 75,000 miles (121,000 km), about one-third of the distance between the Earth and the Moon.