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NASA is created and assigned the responiblity to send the first man to the moon.
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NASA fillay choses its first astronauts. They will become to be know as the first seven.
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The soviets launch Yuri Gagarin into orbit of earth for 108 minutes then saftly landed back on Earth.
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Alan Shepard gets launched into a suborbit and proves that America is still in the space race
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President John F. Kennedy adresses congress and challanges the natation to go to the moon before the decade ends.
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NASA announces the nes Gemini Program.
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John Glenn is launched into orbit of Earth and successfully orbits Earth 3 times.
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Walter Schirra is launched into orbit and successfully orbits Earth 6 times.
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Mariner 2 successfully flies past Venus becoming the first spacecraft to visit a different planet. Mariner 2 enters Solar Orbit.
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L. Gordon Cooper successfully spends 34 hours in space, He becomes the last American to fly is space alone.
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Russian Valentia Tereshkova becomes the first woman is space.
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Presideny John F. Kennedy is assassinated.
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Ranger 7 transmits the first close up images of the moon.
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Alexei Leonov spends 12 minutes outside of his spacecraft preforming the first space walk.
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Frank Borman and James Lovell begin a two week stay in Earth's orbit aboard Gemini 7.
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Luna 9 becomes the first spacecraft to soft-land on the moon.
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Luna 10 becomes the first satellite to orbit the moon
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Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov is killed when the parachute of his Soyuz 1 capsule fails to deploy during re-enty.
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Zond 5 is launched and it holds 2 turtles and it brings them around the Moon and back to Earth 6 days later.
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Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin become the first men to walk on the moon. Therefore ends the spacrace.
