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- 3 June 1965 - Ed White becomes the first American to walk in space.
- 7 June 1971 - Soyuz 11 performs the first successful docking with a space station, Salyut 1.
- 16 June 1963 - Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space, aboard Vostok 6.
- 16 June 2000 - The Mir space station is abandoned, as its final crew depart aboard Soyuz TM-30
- 21 June 2004 - Mike Melvill pilots SpaceShipOne on its maiden spaceflight, 15P.
- 26 June - 1978 - Sigmund Jähn becomes the first East German in space, aboard Soyuz 31
- 28 June - 1978 - Mirosław Hermaszewski becomes the first Polish cosmonaut, aboard Soyuz 30.
- 29 June 1971 - Cosmonauts Georgi Dobrovolski, Viktor Patsayev, and Vladislav Volkov are killed when Soyuz 11 depressurises during re-entry.
- 29 June 1995 - Space Shuttle Atlantis, on mission STS-71, becomes the first spacecraft to dock to a space station of another nation, as it docks with the Russian Mir station.