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• January 16, 2010 - A Long March 3C launches Compass-G1, a Chinese navigation satellite which will become part of the Compass navigation system.
• June 13, 2009 - NASA cancels launch of Space Shuttle Endeavour because of a hydrogen fuel leak

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Robert Donald Cabana

Robert Donald Cabana (Colonel, USMC, Ret.) is the director of NASA's John F. Kennedy Space Center, a former astronaut, and a veteran of four Space Shuttle flights. He is also a former Naval Flight Officer in the United States Marine Corps. He has logged over 7,000 hours in 34 different kinds of aircraft.

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New Horizons on the launchpad

New Horizons is a NASA robotic spacecraft mission that was launched on January 19, 2006 and is currently en route to the dwarf planet Pluto. It is expected to be the first spacecraft to fly by and study Pluto and its moons, Charon, Nix, and Hydra. NASA may also approve flybys of one or more other Kuiper Belt Objects. In addition to the scientific equipment, there are several cultural artifacts travelling with the spacecraft. These include a collection of 434,738 names stored on a compact disc,^[1] a piece of Scaled Composites SpaceShipOne,^[2] and an American flag, along with other mementos.^[3] One of the trim weights on the spacecraft is a Florida state quarter, and principal investigator Alan Stern has also confirmed that some of the ashes of Pluto discoverer Clyde Tombaugh are aboard the spacecraft.^[4]

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• 1962 - A Kosmos-2I launches the first satellite to be given a Kosmos designation, Kosmos-1.
• 1966 - An Atlas D launches a Gemini-Agena Target Vehicle.
• 1966 - A Titan II launches the manned Gemini 8 mission.
• 1967 - A Kosmos-2I launches the Kosmos 148 satellite.
• 1968 - A Voskhod rocket launches the Kosmos 207 satellite.
• 1974 - A Thor-Burner launches a DMSP satellite.
• 1976 - A Vostok-2M launches the Kosmos 808 satellite.
• 1978 - A Titan IIID launches a KH-9 satellite.
• 1979 - A Titan IIID launches a KH-9 satellite.
• 1981 - A Titan IIIC launches a DSP satellite.
• 1983 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos 1446 satellite.
• 1983 - A Molniya-M launches a Molniya-1 satellite.
• 1984 - A Proton-K launches an Ekran satellite.
• 1984 - A Molniya-M launches a Molniya-1 satellite.
• 1989 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos 2006 satellite.
• 1989 - A Soyuz-U2 launches the Progress 41 spacecraft to resupply Mir.
• 1998 - An Atlas II launches a UHF satellite.

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