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In 1608 Hans Lippershey a dutch spectacle maker invented the telescope.
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The British astronomer William Herschel discovered Uranus.
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The Solar Storm of 1859 was a powerful geomagnetic solar storm during solar cycle 10 (1855–1867). A solar coronal mass ejection hit Earth's magnetosphere and induced one of the largest geomagnetic storms on record.
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putnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite. The Soviet Union launched it into an elliptical low Earth orbit on 4 October 1957. It was a 58 cm diameter polished metal sphere, with four external radio antennae to broadcast radio pulses.
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A dog named Laika becomes the first living creature sent from earth into space, aboard Russia's Sputnik 2
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xplorer 1 was the first satellite of the United States, launched as part of its participation in the International Geophysical Year.The mission followed the first two satellites the previous year; the Soviet Union's Sputnik 1 and 2, beginning the Cold War Space Race between the two nations.
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Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was a Russian Soviet pilot and cosmonaut. He was the first human to journey into outer space, when his Vostok spacecraft completed an orbit of the Earth on 12 April 1961.
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On the 20th of July, 1969 USA's Neil Armstrong became the first person to land and walk on the moon. He traveled on the first spacecraft to take people to the moon Apollo 11.
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The Hubble Space Telescope is a space telescope that w as launched into low earth orbit in 1990. It gave scientist whole new ways of looking at space. It sent amazing pictures and it is still in operation today.
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In November,1998 NASA launched the first part of the International Space Station (ISS) into space.
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Mars exploration mission (MER) is an ongoing robotic space mission involving two rovers, Spirit and Opportunity. These rovers were launched in 2003 but then landed on Mars in 2004. They were sent to explore the planet's surface and geology.
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New Horizons, NASA's first-ever mission to the dwarf planet Pluto and its moons, launches atop an Atlas 5 rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Flies past Jupiter one year later in what is billed as NASA's fastest mission to date.
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NASA's Space Shuttle Endeavour launches toward the International Space Station on the STS-118 construction mission. The shuttle crew includes teacher-astronaut Barbara Morgan, NASA's first educator space flyer, who originally served backup for the first Teacher-in-Space Christa McAuliffe who was lost with six crew mates during the 1986 Challenger accident.
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On the 5th of August 2011, NASA launched Juno a space probe meant to orbit Jupiter it was launched in August but did not start orbiting the planet until 4th of July 2016.
