Portal:Spaceflight/Did you know/June 2009
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- …that Phoenix (pictured) was a lander spacecraft that conducted NASA's sixth successful landing on Mars.
- …that the Kennedy Space Center is built on the site of a nature reserve.
- …that there were 67 catalogued orbital launches in 2008, compared with 65 in 2007.