Space History

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Event Date:	Event Title:	Event Description:
07/01/1950	First Bumper Rocket	The first bumper rocket is launched from U.S. (NASA)
10/04/1957	The first artificial satellite	Sputnik 1 was the first artificial satellite, that sent in space. They beat US and whole world was shocked. This in turn triggered the Space Race between the Soviet Union and the United States. (Soviet Space Program)
11/03/1957	First animal in Earth orbit	Laika was the first animal that orbited around the earth. She was on Sputnik 2 was the second spacecraft launched into Earth orbit. (Soviet Space Program)
02/12/1961	First probe launched to Venus	Venera 1 was the First probe that launched to Venus. (Soviet Space Program)
04/12/1961	First person in space and in Earth orbit	Vostok 1 was the first shuttle that carried a person in the sapce and orbited around the Earth. (Soviet Space Program)
05/05/1961	American in Space	Alan Shepard was the first American in Space. He was on Freedom 7. (NASA)
08/06/1961	First person in space for 24 hours	Gherman Titov was the first person survive 24 hours in space. He was on Vostok 2 spaceflight. (Soviet Space Program)
11/01/1962	First probe launched to Mars	Mars 1 was the first probe that launched to Mars. (Soviet Space Program)
06/16/1963	First woman in space	Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman in space. She was on Vostok 6 spaceflight. (Soviet Space Program)
03/31/1966	First probe in lunar orbit	Luna 10 was the first probe in lunar orbit. (Soviet Space Program)
07/16/1969	First man on the moon	Neil Armstrong was the first man to put a step on moon. He was the part of Mission Apollo 11. (NASA)
04/19/1971	First space station	Salyut 1 was the first space station. (Soviet Space Program)
12/07/1972	Last man on the moon	Eugene Cernan was the last man that walk on moon. He was the part of Mission Apollo 17. (NASA)
04/12/1981	First Mission to the Space	STS-1 was the first Space Shuttle was sent in Space By NASA Robert Crippen was the pilot of this spaceshuttle Mission duration was 2day and 6:20:53. (NASA)
04/19/1982	First woman to walk in space	Svetlana Savitskaya was the first woman walk in space. She was in Salyut 7 shuttle. (Soviet Space Program)
02/19/1986	First permanently manned space station	Mir was the first permanently manned space station in history. (Soviet Space Program)
12/21/1987	First crew to spend over one year in space	Vladimir Titov and Musa Manarov were in Soyuz TM-4. Soyuz TM-4 was a space craft that was connected to space station Mir. (Soviet Space Program)
08/05/2011	Juno (spacecraft)	NASA is sending a spacecraft to Jupiter. (NASA)