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To celebrate the fifty-year anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission to the moon, the Saturn V rocket is projected onto the Washington Monument. IMAGES
5,000 model rockets blast off in an attempt at a Guinness world record for the most rockets launched at once. The record attempt at the US Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama, is part of commemorations marking the launch of Apollo 11, 50 years ago. IMAGES
The jacket worn by Buzz Aldrin on his historic mission to the moon has become the most valuable American space artefact ever sold at auction. But how much did it go for?
A Russian Soyuz rocket blasts into space carrying 36 new satellites from British operator OneWeb, which aims to provide broadband internet around the world. The rocket, operated by Europe's Arianespace, took off from the Vostochny cosmodrome in Russia's Far East at 09h40 GMT. IMAGES
Space agency Roscosmos announced that Russia's next-generation Angara-A5 rocket had been "successfully" launched with a mock payload from Plesetsk at 0550 GMT.