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Nikolaus Kopernikus is a German who was the first person to create a model of the Solar System. Without his theroy we would still believe that the Earth is in the middle of the Solar System.
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Hans Lippershey, a lense maker, created the first telescope.
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Sir Issac Newton created a reflecting telescope, but it was really hard to use!
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Laika the dog was the first ever living thing to go into space. Laika went into space with the spacecraft Sputnik 2. Laika's Sputnik 2 ran out of life enery so Sputnik 2 burnt up fo the heat of the atmosphere
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Born on march 9th 1934 and died march 27th 1968, Yuri is the first person ever to go in space and orbit Earth.
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President of America, John F Kennedy, had the idea of the Apollo 11's mission. He said in his speech to the public that the U.S. had to do something that the world would remember. He also said the Soviet Union had already had the first living thing to orbit the Earth (Laika the dog) and the first human to go into space (Yuri Gargin). John was determant to make the U.S. the first people to land on the moon.
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Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins, all members of the Gemini program, were the Apollo 11 team. Their mission was to be the first people to ever walk on the moon. Unfortuantly, Michael Collins was in the Control module in orbit.
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Neil Armstrong is the first man ever to walk on the moon at 2:56 AM. The team of Apollo 11 had to wait six hours before a two and a half hours.
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The Gamma Ray Burst by the Comton Gamma Ray Observatory. The burst took twenty seconds, pretty long for something to explosion. The burst was recorded by a telesope! Probably the time you have finished reading this sentence.
