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An itialian physicist, mathematician, astronomer, and philolsopher. He improved the telescope.
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A plane shaped like a bullet with stubby wings for control. It was air launched and dropped from the underside of B-29 superforce . Chuck Yeager was the first to fly faster than the speed of sound (670 MPH or Mach. 1.015
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Flys up to Mach. 6 (6x speed of sound.) The possible alternative path to place humans in space was not persued yet.
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Sputnik was the first satellite that went into orbit around the, it was sent by USSR.
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The US attempted the launch of the Vanguard Satellite during the same time period as Sputnik. We launched a satellite named Explorer 1 into Earth orbit.
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It was created by president Eisenhower in March 1958.
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There were 6 flights from 1961-1963. The goals of this project were to orbit a manned space craft around Earth, to investigate mans ability to function in space, and recover man and the space craft safely.
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First human to ornit Earth on Arpil 12, 1961
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First American to fly into space (suborbital.)
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First American to orbit Earth.
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First woman in space.
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10 manned flights from 1965-1966. The goals were to subject man and equipment to spaceflight up to 2 weeks in duration, to rendzvous and dock with orbiting vehicles and to manuever the docked combination. Also to perform methods of entering the atmosphere and landing at a preselected point on land.
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The first loss of American astronauts with a failed launch.
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First humans to circumnavigate the moon.
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Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were the first humans to set foot on the moon.
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An explosion occured while this craft was on its way to the moon, everyone was safe but it got a moon rover to the moon.
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First US space station.
