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The First Spotting of the moon through a telescope by Galileo Galilei
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Space Timeline
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Robert H. Goddard launches first liquid fueled rockets.
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Hermann Oberth launches first personal procket with students.
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First animals launched into space (fruit flies) by the U.S.
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First animal launched into orbit, a dog named Laika launched by US
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Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite is launched.
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Yuri Gagarin completes the first amnned space flight,
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Comonaut Aleksei Leonov takes man's first space walk.
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Man Walks on the Moon.
Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin of Apollo XI spend 21 1/2 hours on the moon, 2 1/2 outside the capsule. -
Three Cosmonauts Die.
Georgy Dobrovolsky, Vladislav Volkov, and Viktor Patasey die during re-entry of their Soyuz 11 spacecraft. Died30 minutes before landing because a faulty valve depressurized the spacecraft. -
Skylab I, first U.S. orbiting laboratory, launched.
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Challenger shuttle explodes 73 seconds after launch, killing its crew of Seven.
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Salyut 7 falls from orbit and burns up over Argentina.
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Spacecraft Ulysses flies around Jupiter, on its way to the sun.
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Soyuz spacecraft TM-32 lifts off for the ISS with the first space tourist.
Dennis Tito, who pays the Russians $20 million for the ride. -
First manmade probe in interstellar space.
