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The German V2 was the first ever rocket to reach the boundary of space the rocket was made by Wernher von Braun.
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There was a cat named Felix, and he went to the moon, and came back alive.
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Albert II became the first monkey in space.
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Sputnik was the size of a beach ball and was the Soviet's first satellite.
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The dogs name was Laika she went into space in Sputnik z.
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The first ever orbiting satellite was named Explorer 1.
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A Russian, named Yuri Gargarin, went into space on the Vostok 1.
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Alan Shepard was the first American man in space, on the Freedom VII.
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John H. Glen was the first person to orbit the planet. He did this three times and it took three hours.
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Valentina Lereshkova was the first woman in space, and has a crater named after her the crater is on the far side of the moon.
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The Apollo missions was the first to ever land a human on the moon.