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Galileo used his telescope and confirmed there were more stars than the naked eye can see, that we are part of the Milky Way galaxy and that the moon has craters, as well as that the sun has black spots moving across its surface.
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Robert Goddard launches the first liquid fueled rocket, an idea pioneered by both him and Konstantin Tsiolkovsky who was a Soviet schoolteacher who never actually launched one.
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Hermann Oberth launches liquid propelled rockets with student and future coworker Wernher von Braun.
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A V-2 Rocket later used for military use in Nazi Germany, reached the fringes of space at 109 miles above ground level.
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Scientists came up with the V-2, a missile used for bombing numerous cities throughout Allied control.
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Fruit Flies were sent into space in a captured German V-2 Missile. They returned unarmed.
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Soviet response to the U.S. announcment that there would be artificial satellites in the near future.
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Sputnik was the first satellite to be launched into space.
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Laika, a stray dog was sent into space in Sputnik II, Laika did not survive the trip.
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Project Vanguard, the first U.S. Satellite to be launched into space exploded seconds after takeoff, marking it as a failure on national television.
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The first U.S. Satellite named Explorer I was successfully launched, the USA is lagging behind the USSR in terms of Space exploration.
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Two dogs, Strelka and Belka survived the trip to space and back. USSR victory.
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Yuri Gagarin is sent into orbit around Earth, first man in space. Huge victory for USSR
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Alan Shepard becomes first American to get into space.
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Two superpowers of USSR and USA were about to join forces and then JFK is killed, leaving the Soviet Union hanging.
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USSR has first man to walk in space.
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Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin go to the moon, successfully land on it. U.S. Victory.
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USSR launches Salyut 1 as the first space station.
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Skylab, the first U.S. Space Station was launched to study how things behave in space.
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Apollo-Souyz docking, symbolizing the end of the Space Race.
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The Shuttle Columbia with its first takeoff,
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Space Shuttle Challenger explodes seconds after liftoff.
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Russian Space Station Mir launched.
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Discovery brings up Hubble.
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A rover is now on mars's surface, transmitting images.
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American Dennis Tito became the first tourist in space after paying the Russian space program $20,000,000.
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The Space Shuttle Columbia broke up on re-entry into the Earth’s atmosphere.
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George Bush announced a base on Mars by 2015 and humans back on the moon, as we can see that will not come to fruitation.
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Best equipped robot ever goes to Mars to collect samples.
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Voyager 1, a space probe over 30 years entered the space between the stars.
