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The Raging Sandwich

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  1. February 22

    1978: Navstar 1, an early GPS satellite, was launched into orbit. It paved the way for future GPS satellites in orbit now. It was working successfully once in orbit.

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    1996: STS-75 and its crew of 7 launched into orbit on a 16-day mission. It's main mission was to deploy the Tethered Satellite System (TSS) 1R. A similar shuttle mission in 1992 tried this as well, but could not deploy it. The Italian satellite was released from the shuttle payload bay on a 24-kilometer-long tether. During release of the probe, the tether snapped, unintentionally leaving the probe in orbit to reenter in March.

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    2000: The Galileo spacecraft did a flyby of the moon Io.

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    2000: STS-99 and its crew of 6 landed back at Earth.

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