Portal:Spaceflight/On This Day/2 January

1959 - Luna 1 is launched towards the moon by a Luna rocket. It fails to hit, and becomes the first spacecraft to enter Heliocentric orbit
2004 - The Stardust spacecraft performs a flyby of comet 81P/Wild

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