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			Current events for November 17, 2012 <<-Previous day Return to calendar Next day->> Events in space history for 11/17: Surveyor 6 flew 8 feet above the Moon, which was the first liftoff from the surface of the Moon (1967). (Click on Surveyor for more information.) First commercial rocket launched (1988).