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Robert Goddard "The Father of Modern Rocketry" invented the liquid fuel rocket
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In 1926, Robert Goddard "Father of Modern Rocketry" invented the liquid fuel rocket
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The space age began on October 4, 1957,when the Soviet Union launched Spunik 1, the first artifical object to orbit the earth
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Yuri Gagarin became the first person to travel in space when he made a single orbit around yhe earth in his Vostok 1 spacececraft
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the first American to orbit the earth
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the pilot Vostok 6, became the first woman to fly in space
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became the first human being to set foot on another world
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was used only briefly, five more Salyut space stations were successfully operated
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The United States launched its first space station
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the United States launched the space shuttle Columbia, a new type of spacecraft
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orbited the earth 14 times in his Shenzhou 5 spacecraft
