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it was when the USSR launched Sputnik into space making it the first man made object in space -
when the USSR launched Laika into orbit -
when the US launched their first satellite into orbit -
when NASA was founded -
when NASA launched ham the Chimp into space -
when Yuri Gagarin was launched into space -
when Alan Shepard was launched into -
when John Glenn was the first USA guy to orbit the earth -
when JFK gave his speech about getting to the moon -
when Alexei Leonov performed an EVA -
Gemini 3 was the first crewed Earth-orbiting spacecraft of the Gemini series It was piloted by astronauts Virgil Grissom and John Young -
first American went for a walk in space -
Gemini 4 was the second crewed mission of the Gemini series and carried James McDivitt and Edward White on a 4-day, 62-orbit, 98-hr flight from June 3 to June 7, 1965 The mission included the first American spacewalk -
Gemini 5, carrying astronauts Gordon Cooper and Charles Conrad was the third crewed Earth-orbiting spacecraft of the Gemini series -
both pilots died in a plane crash as they approached the runway at St.Louis -
fire swept through the Apollo 1 Command Module during launch rehearsal test, killing the three astronauts trapped inside -
ASTRONAUTS:Walter Schirra Jr., R. Walter Cunningham, Donn F. Eisele
The first crewed flight of the Apollo program -
CREW:Frank Borman, James Lovell Jr., William Anders
Round the moon and back -
CREW:James A. McDivitt, Russell L. Schweickart, David R. Scott
First flight of the full Apollo spacecraft -
CREW:Thomas Stafford, Eugene Cernan, John Young -
ASTRONAUTS:Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Michael Collins
perform a crewed lunar landing and return to Earth