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A fire in Apollo I kills the three astronauts scheduled to go up in space on this very first mission.
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The first Soviet mission fails after the 13th orbit, when it's stabilizer failed.
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Americans and Soviets began their new space projects.
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Soyuz 4 launched with one astronaut.
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Apollo 7 mission began but ended 11 day after. The goal was to test the Apollo-Atlas system, but the bad tempers of the astronauts caused the quick end to the mission
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The unmanned craft went up.
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Georgi T. Beregovoi went up in Soyuz 3 for 3 days in a failed attempt to rendezvous with the Soyuz 2.
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Apollo 8 launches with three people on board.
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Apollo 8 and people begin to orbit the moon 70 miles above the surface.
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Apollo 8 reenters earth perfectly.
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Soyuz 5 launches with three cosmonauts. They stayed up for 3 days and performed a perfect walk between Soyuz 4&5.
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Apollo 9 launches with the mission to test the lunar module.
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Apollo 10 is the final mission before man lands on the moon.
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Apollo 11 launches
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Man lands on the moon.
Armstrong, Collins and Aldrin walked on the moon for 2.5 hours collecting sample and setting experiments. -
October 11-13 soviets launched 3 Soyuz missions at this time. Their goals were unclear.
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Apollo 12 launches for a second moon landing. Astronauts visited surveyor 3 and discovered bacteria on the moon; the first discovery of life outside of earth.
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It was the first joint U.S.–Soviet space flight, and the last flight of an Apollo spacecraft.