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Russian Soviets and Americans were fighting for the first space exploration.
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Russia and America were soace race enemies.
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Russian Soveits launched a dog named Laika into space on Novemer 3, 1957.
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The first successful weather satilite, Trios 1, was launched by Amaricans in1960. This is important for the future so we could find out the weather.
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The Soveit Union launched Yuri Gargarian into space in 1961. He was the first human to be launched into space. He orbitted the Eartth once.
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President John F. Kennedy suggested that an american man should land on the moon.
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John Glenn was th efirst American to orbit Earth. He orbitted Earth 3 times.
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Luna 10; first satilite to orbit the moon. This satilite was created y Russia.
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Appollo landed on the moon with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on July 20th, 1969.
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Armstrong and Aldrin stayed on the moon for two hours and collected 400kg of lunar rocks.
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The Soviet Union created a space station called Mir that stayed in orbit for 15 years befor crashing to Earth.
