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the first animals sent into space were fruit flies aboard a u.s.-launched V-2 rocket on 20 February 1947 from white sands missile range
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First balloon flight by Aeromedical field laboratory . Dummy load test reached 97,000 feet. payload recovered after 5-hour flight
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Soviet R-1A rocket carried dogs Smelaya and Rzhik reached 62 miles recovered . (USSR)
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Aermedical Field Laborator balloon flight #7. Carried animal capsule with cosmic ray film plates, cat, and three hamsters; balloon reached 103,600 feet. Capsule not recovered for 2 months. (USA)
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Aeromedical Field Laboratory balloon flight #9. Carried cosmic ray film plates; balloon reached 92,000 feet. Prompt recovery. (USA)
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Aeromedical Field Laboratory balloon flight #15. Test of tandem balloon technique; balloon reached 94,000 feet. (USA)
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dog - the name of the dog -Laika
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pioneer 1: first NASA launch
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The United states sent pioneer 4 to the moon, successfully making the first U.S. lunar flyby
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monkeys -may 28,1959 - able & miss Berker
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chips- January 31,1961 - Ham
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The USSR launched the first human in space,Yuri Gagarin into a single orbit in vostok 1 on a Vosstok 3KA rocket , on April 12,1961
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The us launched it first astronaut,Alan Shepard on a suborbital fight aboard freedom 7 on a mercury-Redstone Rocket
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The first american in orbit was John Glenn aboard friendship 7, launched February 20, 1962, on a mercury-Atlas rocket .
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The USSR launched five more cosmonauts in vostok capsule, including the first woman in space , Valentina Tereshkova aboard voctok 6
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cat - October 18,1963
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They were able to launch two orbital flights in 1964 and 1965 and achieved the first spacewalk, made by Alexei Leonov on Voskhod 2
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Neil Alden Armstrong ( August 5, 1930 - August 25 ,2012 was an american astronaut and the first person to walk on the moon , he was also an aerospace engineer, naval aviator, test pilot, and university professor
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China did not successfully launch it's first satellite until
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Pioneer 10: the first flyby of Jupiter
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SMS-A: The launch of the first geosynchronous weather satellite
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Columbia roarded into the skies above Florida's Kennedy space center on April 12,1981,kicking off the shuttle program with astronauts john young and bob crippen at the controls
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astronaut sally K. Ride became the first american woman in space on June 18, 1983, lifting off on the space shuttle challenger
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astronaut Guy Bluford became the first African-american in space in August of 1983, on a mission which also saw the first nighttime launch and landing of a shuttle
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Svetlana Savitskayar became the first woman to walk in space
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Hubble was launched on April 24, 1990 on aboard space shuttle discovery and orbits 600 kilometers (375 miles) above Earth
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Galileo: Probe released into Jupiter's atmosphere
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Nematodes 18-19 2002
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The first private human spaceflight took place on 21 June 2004
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modern rocketry was invented by Dr.Robert Goddard , for this he is known as the father of modern rocketry.He created the first successful liquid fuel rocket, adding the nozzle design that is so common today July 21,2009
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on 31 December 2012, a NASA-supported study reported that spaceflight may harm the brain of astronauts and accelerate the onset of Alzheimer's disease