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In January 1946, Americans start experimenting with V2 Rockets.
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Some V2 rockets are tested at Kapustin, Yar
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A rocket was launched to 244 miles high at 5510mp/h in an American Testing Site. It was a recordbreaker on February 24 1949.
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On May 11, President Truman signed a bill for a 5,000 mile test range to extend.
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The first Nike Production Line rocket had a successful test flight.
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President Eisenhover approves plans to send unmanned satellites to orbit the earth.
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Sputnik-1 makes the first earth orbit.
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The U.S.S.R launches Luna which is the is the first probe to go near the moon.
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The U.S.S.R launch the first manned space flight. Yuri Gagarin stays in space for 60 minutes.
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Valentina Tereshkova-Nikolayeva becomes the first woman in space in a U.S.S.R spacecraft.
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Cosmonaut Leonov becomes the first human to walk in space.
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The first soft moon landing is carried out by Luna 9. A russian probe lands on Venus.
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U.S astronaunts land on the moon in Apollo 11.
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NASA put the 95,000kg Skylab into Earths orbit. Here, experiments are carried out for 85 days.
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NASA sends a probe which successfully lands on a comet.
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The first probe to land on Uranus.
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The NASA probe Voyager 2 reaches Neptune.
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Russian Soyuz spacecraft takes the first tourist into space. Dennis Tito is taken to the National Space Station.
