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First person, Yuri A. Gagarin, traveled to space. His flight lasted 1 hour and 48 minutes.
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First Woman to travel to space is Valentina Tereshkova, a Russian astronaut Valentina was in Space for three days.
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First person,Alexei A. Leonov stepped out of the spacecraft.
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Edward H. White II made the first spacewalk for the United States
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Neil A. Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first people to set foot on the moon.
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United States sent up a team of astronauts to operate its first space station, Skylab. Astronauts Charles Conrad, Jr., Joseph P. Kerwin, and Paul J. Weitz lived in Skylab for almost a month.
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United States launched a space shuttle named Columbia, the first reusable spacecraft to carry a crew
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Sally K. Ride was first American Woman to go into space.
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Sergei Krikalev becomes the first Russian Astronaut to fly aboard a U.S. space shuttle.
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C completed a world record 438 days in space.