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Galileo was an important person in the is event. He was the first to see the moon through his telescope.
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A key person was William Moore. The British mathematician published a treatises that features the first explosion on rocket mechanics based on Newton's third law of motio.
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A key person was Robert H. Goddard. He was the first person to launch rockets with liquid fuel.
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America launched its first American designed rocket into space
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The USA launched the first artificial satellite. It was also the first artificial satellite made and its name is Sputnik.
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NASA was born. The National Aeronautics utics and Space Administration.
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The most important person was Alan Shepard Jr. He was the first American astronaut launched into space, for a suborbital flight.
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Valentina Tereshkova was the first women to go into outer space. She orbited the earth 48 times.
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Neil Armstrong was the important person in this mission. He was the first man to walk on the moon.
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Skylab was the US's first orbiting laboratory that was launched into space.
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Shuttle Columbia was the first spaceship that had wings to orbit the earth.
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Hubble was the first space telescope launched into space and earths orbit.
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Dawn was the first space prob launched. It was sent on a 8 year mission and had to visit 2 celestial bodies.
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Phoenix Mars lander landed on Mars, took picture, and sent them back to earth. We noticed that there was ice there.
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Kepler was a spacecraft that was launched to look for other planets that were outside our solar system, In the farther area of the Milky Way.
