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The first rocket was launched.
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The first U.S. satellite was launched into space.
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Mariner 2 travled to Venus and collected data for 3 months. The craft now orbits that sun.
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The fisrt flyby reached Mars.
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Neil Armstrong , Buzz Aldrin, apollo 11 astronauts were the forst people to walk the moon.
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After fling past jupiter Pioneer 10 is still traveling onward someday to exit the solar system.
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The first orbiter was sent to Saturn, Cassini was launcehd in 1997 as part of an international effort involing 19 countries.
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The New Horizons was launched in 2006 heading towards Pulto
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Launched in 2009, the Kepler telescope focuses on a single area of sky containing about 100,000.