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On October 4, 1957, the Soviet Union launched the first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1, and recieved the first signals from space.
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On January 2, 1959, the Soviet Union launched Luna 1 to becom the first rocket in Earth's orbit.
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on September 13, 1959, the satelitte Luna 2, launched by the Soviet Union, landed on the moon, and became the very first viechle to touch another planet.
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On April 12, 1961, The space craft, Vostok 1 launched by the Soviet Union, took Yugi Gargain to be the first person in space.
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On December 14 1962, The United States' Mariner 1 soared past venus for the first ever planetary flyby
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On the 14th of July of 1965, Mariner 4, a spacecraft launched by the United States, passed Mars for the first ever Mars Flyby.
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On March 1, 1966, the Soviet launched Venera 3 made the first impact into another planet, Venus.
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On Julky 21, 1969, The United States' Apollo 11 successfully delivered the first ever human on the moon. This is when Neil Armstrong said "One Small step for a man, One Giant Leap for Mankind."
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In 1981, the United States starts the Space shuttle program.
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Many years after that day in December 1962 when the firtst ever planetary flyby happened, on August 25, 1989, the United States suceesfully flys by the planet Neptune on space ship Voyager 2.
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In 2011, the Space shuttle program is enden with the landing of the last shuttle, Alantis
