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Beacuse It helped united states create nasa wich led to apallo 11 and greter things
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later in the 1958 the united states created a govermwnt agency by the name of NASA
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The soviets launched the first ever man into space
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Alan sheppard was the first american ever in soace but did not orbit
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Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space, completes 48 orbits.
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Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov is killed when his Soyuz I spacecraft crashes on return to Earth.
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Three americans astronaughts cirlced the moon and then landed on the moon aborf apallo 11
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U.S. astronauts and Soviet cosmonauts participate in Apollo-Soyuz Test Project, docking together in space for two days.
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Shuttle Columbia becomes first winged spaceship to orbit Earth and return to airport landing.
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An American and Russian crew begins living aboard the international space station.