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			Current events for November 29, 2012 <<-Previous day Return to calendar Next day->> Events in space history for 11/29: First hand-launched satellite deployed into orbit. Astronaut Sherwood Spring deployed Advanced Autopilot Radar target satellite from STS-61B Space Shuttle Atlantis' cargo bay. Satellite continued to orbit Earth for more than a year (1985). Enos, a chimp, was the first American to orbit the Earth (1961).