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space race
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The Soviet Union made the launch of sputnik 1. The size o a beach bal and wheighs 184 pounds and takes 98 minutes to orbit the earth.
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November 3 1957 she went to space a few hours later she died from no oxygen and heat from coming back to earths atmosphere.
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Launched les than two months after Vanguard 1A the first American attempt to compete with sputnik,blows up on the launchpad explorer 1 achieves an orbit extending to an astonishing 1,560 miles.
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Gordo was the first monkey in space when she was coming down from space she landed in the ocean and drowned.
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Determined to keep up with the U.S. launched astronaut Alan Shepard on a 15 minute suborbital flight. In a first not realized until years later,Shepard rides the capsule all the way back down a feat made easier by the U.S. decistion to conduct.
