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Galileo improved the telescope
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Sputnik 1 was launched
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Sputnik 2 was launched
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Sputnik 1 crashes to Earth
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Explorer 1 lifts off and discovers Earths radiation belt.
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Explorer 2 is launched and fails to reach orbit
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Vanguard 1 is launched into orbit and continues for 3 years.
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Sputnik 2 stopped its orbit
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Sputnik 3 is launched
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NASA was founded
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Vostok 1 is launched by the U.S.S.R, it carried the first man in space (Cosmonaut Yuri A. Gargarin). He orbits the earth once.
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Vostok 2 is launched and was the first day-long Soviet space flight.
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Mercury Friendship 7 takes off with John H. Glenn Jr. who was the first American in orbited. It orbited Earth 3 times.
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Mercury Aurora 7 is launched and makes 3 orbits
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US Mariner 2 was the first successful planetary spacecraft. It flew past Venus and entered a solar orbit.
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Vostok 6 orbited the Earth 48 times with the first woman in space (Cosmonaut Valentia Tereshcova)
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US Ranger 7 gets the first close-range photographs of the moon
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Gemini 7 is launched, making 206 orbits around Earth and proving a trip to the moon is possible
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Soviet Zond 5 is launched and was the first spscecraft to orbit the moon and return.
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Apollo 11 landed on the Moon.
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Hubble Telescope was launched
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Space X was founded
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Space X was awarded a commercial orbital transportation services contract
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Space X became the first company to successfully launch, orbit, and recover a spacecraft (COTS Demo Flight 1)
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Mars Land Rover landed
