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the space age began on October 4,1957 when the Sputnik I was the first artificial object to orbit the earth
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Unites States responded with its first satellite, a 31 pound craft named Explorer 1
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Yuri Gagarin a soviet asronaut, became the first person to to travel to space when he made a single orbit around the earth.
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a year later Jhon Glenn became the first American to orbit earth
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Apollo 11 was the first mission to actually manned a spacecraft on the moon.
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Neil Armstrong was the first human ever who touch another world (moon)
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U.S.A launched the space shuttle Columbia, a new type of spacecraftm
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George W. Bush announced that the United States would begin a new space exploration program that would send astronauts to the moon again.
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NASA plans to return to the moon and eventually build a lunar work station.