Portal:Spaceflight/On This Day/3 June

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• 1959 - A Thor-Agena fails to launch the Discoverer 3 satellite.
• 1965 - A Titan II launches the manned Gemini 4 mission.
• 1965 - Ed White becomes the first American to walk in space.
• 1966 - A Titan II launches the manned Gemini 9 mission.
• 1966 - An Atlas-Agena launches the AFP-206 satellite.
• 1969 - A Kosmos-2I launches the Kosmos-285 satellite.
• 1969 - A Titan IIIB launches a KH-8 satellite.
• 1974 - A Scout E-1 launches the Explorer 52 satellite.
• 1975 - A Voskhod rocket launches the Kosmos-742 satellite.
• 1975 - A Kosmos-3M fails to launch an unknown satellite.
• 1981 - A Soyuz-U launches the Kosmos-1274 satellite.
• 1982 - A Kosmos-3MP launches the Kosmos-1374 satellite.
• 1992 - A Kosmos-3M launches the eight satellites.
• 1997 - An Ariane 4 launches the Inmarsat-3F4 and Insat-2D satellites.