June 21, 2005
- The first specifically designed solar sail craft, Cosmos 1, a joint private project between Planetary Society, Cosmos Studios and the Russian Academy of Science, is launched from a Russian submarine. The rocket, however, fails 83 seconds after the launch and the chance of mission failure is "significant". (BBC) (SBS)
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