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Start of the U.S.- soviet Space Race
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nasa is created
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The USSR Luna 2 is launched
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First man in space
aboard the spacecraft Vostok 1, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin becomes the first human being to travel into space. -
Mercury red stone 3 mission
Mercury red stone 3 was the first United States human spaceflight, and was piloted by astronaut Alan Shepard. -
john glenn became the first American to orbit Earth
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Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov left his spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes making the first spacewalk in history.
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pioneer 10
an American space probe that completed the first mission to the planet Jupiter. Then Pioneer 10 became the first spacecraft to achieve escape velocity from the Solar System. -
columbia the first flight of the Space Shuttle program
Space Shuttle Columbia was the first space-rated orbiter in NASA's Space Shuttle fleet. It launched for the first time on mission STS-1 (space transportation system 1) -
NEAR-shoemaker
The NEAR robotics space probe was the first probe was the first to orbit and land on an asteroid (shoemaker- asteroid named in honor of planetary scientist Gene Shoemaker) -
International Space Station Launched
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we lose communication with pioneer 10
pioneer 10 was 12 billion km (7456454306.848 mi) from earth -
Columbia explodes returning to earth
Over 22 years of service it completed 27 missions before disintegrating during re-entry near the end of its 28th mission, STS-107, resulting in the deaths of all seven crew members. -
first Chinese astronaut in space
Yang Liwei was the first Chinese astronaut in space. He was in space for a total of 21 hours 22 minuets and 45 seconds -
nasa celebrates 50 years of space exploration
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The end of nasa's space shuttle program
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Curiosity mars rover launch
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independence plaza opens at space canter houston
“This is our full-scale shuttle replica, that is mounted on top of the original and authentic shuttle-carrier aircraft,” Space Center Director of Communications Gayden Cooper says. “Houston will have the only exhibit like this in the world.”
