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Event Date:	Event Title:	Event Description:
03/16/1926	First Rocket	Robert Goddard liquid-fueled rocket rose 12 m into the air.
01/31/1958	First U.S satellite	in the same year NASA was founded, Explorer 1 was launched. It orbited Earth 58,000 times before burning up in Earth`s atomsphere in 1970.
10/01/1958	Congress found NASA	NASA oversees all U.S missions, including sapce telescopes.
05/15/1961	apollo moon walk	series of space missions designed to send people to the moon.
01/26/1962	First planetary probe	Mariner 2 traveled to Venus and collected data for 3 months. the craft now orbits the sun.
12/14/1962	Mariner 2 sent to venus	the first spacecraft to gather info from another planet was the flyby Mariner 2, sent to Venus
07/15/1972	first probe to outer solar system	After flying past Jupiter, pioneer 10 is still traveling onward, someday to exit the solar system.
04/12/1981	space shuttle piggyback on rockets	reusable spaceraft that transport people and materials to and formm space
07/24/2000	international system of space	earth orbiting satellite.