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			Current events for September 18, 2012 <<-Previous day Return to calendar Next day->> Events in space history for 09/18: U.S. launched Vanguard 3. It weighed only 96 lb. (1959). Joe Kittinger completes first solo balloon crossing of Atlantic (1984). Soyuz 38 carries 2 cosmonauts (first Cuban) to Salyut 6 space station (1980). US Voyager I takes first space photograph of earth & moon together (1977).