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February 14th in Astronomy and Space Science

	1963	US attempts to launch a communications satellite into a high geo-synchronous orbit. The satellite fails to achieve the right orbit.
	1972	The USSR launches the Luna 20 spacecraft -- an attempted sample return mission to the Moon.
	2000	The NEAR-Shoemaker spacecraft becomes the first to orbit an asteroid as it goes into orbit about asteroid 433 Eros.

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