June 02

1966 - Surveyor 1 became the first American spacecraft to soft-land on the Moon.
1972 - Actor Anthony Montgomery (Ensign Travis Mayweather) is born.
1977 - Actor Zachary Quinto (Spock, in Star Trek 2009) is born.
2003 - Europe launches its first voyage to another planet: Mars. The European Space Agency's Mars Express probe launches from the Baikonur space center in Kazakhstan.

2402 - The USS Gettysburg, BC-1863 departs on her first mission: to locate a Romulan warbird the USS Dauntless, BC-1553 previously left for dead.