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Germany launches V-2 rocket. It was the first one to reach orbit! The V-2 reached an altitude of about 62 miles
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The first animals in space were fruit flies?!?!? They were sent on a rocket into space.
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A month after Spuntnik 1, the Russians sent Spuntnik 2 into orbit. The Spuntnik 2 had a pressurised cabin with a dog inside. The dog lived for 8 days. The dog proved to scientists that living things could live in space.
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Russian Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin was the first human to go into space.
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Russian Cosmonaut makes first space walk.
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Mars, to this day, is explored by a NASA remote controlled robotic rover.
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