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1915 - Establishment of National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (NACA)

1959 - Pioneer 4 launch, first U.S. sun-orbiter, U.S. IGY space probe

1969 - Apollo 9 launch, first launch of complete Apollo configuration: Saturn V, CSM & LM


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