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a year later,in 1962,john glenn in the friendship mercury became the first american to orbit teh earth.
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in 1964 the soviets accomplishd another first by launching three cosmonauts aboard a single spacecrft,voskhod 1.
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on july 20,1969, as the moon apollo CSM columbia orbited the the moon, two of the three astronauts boarded the Lm eagle and descended toward the lunar surface.
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in 1926 robert goddard the father of modern rocketry invented the liquid fuel rocket.
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became the first human being to set foot on another world and his words were thats one small step for man,one giant leap for mankind.
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the united states launched ist first space station,skylab,in 1973.the space sation it was in which people could live and work for months at a time.
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the space age began on october 4,1956 when the soviet union launched spuntnik 1, the first atificial object to orbit the earth
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on may 5 one month after gagarin orbited the earth,alan shepard decame americas first person in space with a fifteen minute suborbital hop in the freedom 7 mercury spacegraft.
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in 1963 valentina , the pilot of vostok 6, becam the first woman to fly in space.
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on april 2 ,1961,yuri gagarin became the first person to trvel in space when made a single orbit around the earth in his votok 1 spacegraft.
