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On January 7, 1610 Galileo Galilei first spotted the moon.
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Robert H. Goddard launched the first liquid fueled rocket.
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In 1947, the first animals were launched into space by the U.S. which were fruit flies.
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The U.S.S.R. launched the first artifical satellite which was called Sputnik to orbit the earth in 1957.
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The first dog was launched into orbit by the U.S.S.R. in 1957.
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In 1963, the first women was launched into space by the U.S.S.R.
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In 1969, Neil Armstrong was the first man on the moon in a mission called Apollo 11.
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The first photo of Earth was taken by NASA in 1972.
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The voyager 1 was launched into space on September 5, 1977 and voyager 2 was launched on August 20, 1977 to go into the deep space.
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Voyager's 1 camera detected a ring around Jupiter in 1979.
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The U.S. launched a shuttle called the Columbia in 1981.
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In 1997, the U.S. launched a rover to explore Mars which was called Sojourner.
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In 1998, the first international space station was launched .
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The Messager mission was started by the U.S. in 2004 to start orditing around Mercury.
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The first spacecraft orbited a dwarf plant named Ceres in 2015.
