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Galileo looked threw his telescope at the night sky and saw: craters on the Moon, Jupiter's Moons, and Venu's Faces.
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Robert H. Goddard launches first liquid fueled rocket. Changing the power of rockets, making them more effective.
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First vehicle to cross the Kármán line. In 1942, the "Bumper-WAC" became the first human-made object to enter space as it went to an altitude of 244 miles. The rocket consisted of a JPL WAC Corporal missile sitting atop a German V-2 rocket. The V-2 was developed by Wernher von Braun's team of German researchers.
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USSR launched the first ballistic missile, trying to achieve intercontinental missiles.
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USSR launched Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite launched into space. Starting the Space Race between USA, and USSR.
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Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space.
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The Russian spacecraft Luna 9 became the first spacecraft to land on the moon.
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The Soviet spacecraft Zond 5 was launched and later became the first spacecraft to orbit the moon and return to Earth.
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Neil Armstrong and "Buzz" Aldrin became the first men on the moon. This is the most known achievements in Space Exploration, breaking all boundaries of Space Exploration.
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The U.S. launched its first space station, Skylab. Its main use was to study the Sun, and the Earth from space.
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Columbia became the first Space Shuttle to be launched. Changing space travel making it more cost effective, and efficient.
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NASA's Hubble Space Telescope was launched April 24, 1990, on the space shuttle Discovery from Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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The Mars Pathfinder arrived on Mars and later began transmitting images.
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Zarya, the first ISS module, was launched by the Proton, November 20th, 1998
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A private company named SpaceX launched a spacecraft into orbit and returned it to earth safely. It was the first non-government organization to accomplish this
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