Portal:Transport/Selected anniversaries/September 18

• 1502 – Christopher Columbus lands at Costa Rica on his fourth, and final, voyage.
• 1959 – Vanguard 3 launched into Earth orbit.
• 1961 – U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld dies in a plane crash while attempting to negotiate peace in the war-torn Katanga region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
• 1977 – Voyager I takes first space photograph of Earth and Moon together.
• 1980 – Soyuz 38 carries two cosmonauts (one Cuban) to Salyut 6 space station (pictured).
• 1984 – Joe Kittinger completes first solo balloon crossing of the Atlantic.

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