Portal:Spaceflight/Anniversaries/July

• July 1, 2004 - The Cassini spacecraft becomes the first Saturn orbiter.
• July 4, 1997 - Mars Pathfinder lands on Mars and, the next day, releases Sojourner, the first automated roving vehicle on Mars.
• July 4, 2005 - Deep Impact smashes into Comet Tempel 1, the first comet impact.
• July 14, 1965 - Mariner 4 makes the first flyby of Mars.
• July 17, 1975 - Soviet and U.S. spacecraft dock on the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, the first joint U.S.-Soviet space mission.
• July 19, 1963 - Joseph A. Walker pilots first winged craft into space on X-15 Flight 90.
• July 20, 1969 - Apollo 11 makes the first human landing on the Moon.