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Ham was the chimp that the United States of America sent into space. -
Sputnik was the name of the first satellite that the USSR sent into Space. -
Dog Laika was the first animal ever to be sent into space by the USSR. -
Explorer 1- The USA's part in the International Geophysical Year. -
Congressional legislation passes the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. -
Gagarin was the first man that the USSR sent into space, who completed one orbit. -
Alan Shepard was the first US astronaut that was sent into space, being the fifth total man to walk on the moon. -
JFK's speech included why he thought it was important to do such a task "We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard..." -
Glenn Jr. was the first man to orbit Earth. While on this mission he orbited Earth a total of three times -
Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov spent 12 minutes and 9 seconds completing the first EVA by the USSR in the Voskhod 2 Spacecraft. -
The Gemini 3 was a rocket created with a two person capsule allowing two people to go into Space, rather than only one. -
Steve Robinson was the first American to complete an EVA on mission STS-114. -
In Gemini 7 astronauts Frank Borman and Jim Lovell fly the Titan ll GLV on a two week space task. -
On the way to the moon Gemini 9 in a task to get a targeted vehicle into space, the rocked was destroyed at takeoff killing any astronauts inside. -
Lovell, James, Edwin, and Aldrin complete docking with the Agenda Target Vehicle to complete an EVA. -
Killing Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee Apollo 1 had attempted to be first to land on the Moon, when a cabin fire during the launch occurred. -
Apollo 7 was the first Apollo mission with a human crew after the failed attempt with Apollo 1. -
The first Space Crew to leave Earth at a low orbit carrying Jim Lovell, Frank Borman, and Bill Anders -
This was a test flight of the LLTV, which burned up in Earth's Atmosphere. -
Apollo 10 was a human space flight that orbited the Moon 31 times and landed safely back on Earth after doing so. -
A flight that lasted 195 hours carried Ed Buzz Aldrin, Michael Collins, and the first man who walked on the moon, Neil Armstrong.