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Robert Goddard liquid-fueled rocket rose 12 m into the air.
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in the same year NASA was founded, Explorer 1 was launched. It orbited Earth 58,000 times before burning up in Earth`s atomsphere in 1970.
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NASA oversees all U.S missions, including sapce telescopes.
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series of space missions designed to send people to the moon.
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Mariner 2 traveled to Venus and collected data for 3 months. the craft now orbits the sun.
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the first spacecraft to gather info from another planet was the flyby Mariner 2, sent to Venus
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After flying past Jupiter, pioneer 10 is still traveling onward, someday to exit the solar system.
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reusable spaceraft that transport people and materials to and formm space
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earth orbiting satellite.