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Earth was created for all of us
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Sputnik 1, the Soviet Union launched the first artificial satellite into space, it was about as big as a beach ball.
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The soviet union sent the first animal into space, it was a dog named Laika
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FIrst successful satellite by the US, Explorer 1, was launched by the US Army
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NASA was created because of the Space Race between us and the USSR
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The first animal sent into space by the US was a chimpanzee named Ham. The flight lasted about 16 1/2 minutes.
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Yuri Gagarin was the first person to fly in space. His flight lasted 108 minutes as he circled the Earth for a little more than one orbit in the Soviet Union's Vostok spacecraft.
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The first person in space by the USA was Alan Shepard, he rode on the Freedom 7 spacecraft, launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida.
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John F Kennedy set a goal for America to land a man on the moon before the decade ended. The United States was currently in a "space race" with the Soviet Union and this would put them on top
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The first man to orbit the moon for the USA was John Glenn. He orbited the globe three times in about 5 hours in the capsule that was called Friendship 7.
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The first person to do an EVA by the USSR was Alexei Leonov, he spent about 12 minutes outside of his spacecraft, Voskhod 2.
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Astronauts James McDivitt and Ed White circled the Earth 66 times in four days. That long amount of time was the first US flight to approach the five-day flight that the Soviet Union pulled up.
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It was the third crewed Gemini flight and it was used to test equipment notes.
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This mission carried astronauts John Young and Michael Collins. The primary purpose of it was to conduct rendezvous and docking tests.
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The first American astronauts that did an EVA was Buzz Aldrin
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The apollo 1 tragedy was where Gus Grissom, Edward White, and Roger Chaffee died when a fire went into the Command Module.
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Apollo 7 was the first mission that carried out a whole crew into space.
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Apollo 8 was the first mission to have a crew leave the low Earth orbit and also the first to reach the moon, orbit it and then return.
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Apollo 9 was the first time that they used the full apollo spacecraft, which included the command and service module with the Lunar Module.
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This mission was pretty much a dress rehearsal for when they land on the moon. This was the first mission to test all the components and procedures right before landing.
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Apollo 11 was obviously the first mission where a person actually stepped foot on the moon. The crew consisted of Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, Michael Collins. The total EVA was about 2 hours and 30 minute.