June 27

1898 – Joshua Slocum completes the first solo circumnavigation of the Earth.
1982 – NASA's Space Shuttle Columbia is launched from the Kennedy Space Center on its final research and development mission.
1995 – NASA launched space shuttle Atlantis (STS-71), which docked with Russian MIR space station, marking the first cooperative effort between the US and Russia since 1975.
2013 – NASA launches the Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph space probe to observe the Sun.