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The first spotting of the Moon through a telescope by Galileo Galilei.
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Robert H. Goddard launches first liquid fueled rockets
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Hermann Oberth launches first personal rocket with students.
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First German military liquid fueled rockets developed.
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Soviet Union launches first rocket of there own.
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First research flight launched by the U.S. captured by the V-2 space rocket.
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First animals launched into space (fruit flies) by the U.S.
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First artificial satellite put into space that brings back signals to earth launched by the USSR.
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First animal launched into orbit, dog named Laika launched by USSR and did not return alive.
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First ballistic missle produced by the USSR.
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First rocket launched into Earths orbit by the USSR.
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First detection of solar wind by USSR.
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First photograph of the earth from the earth's orbit by U.S. NASA.
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First plants and animals to return to earth safely/alive from the Earth's orbit.
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First human spaceflight and humanned orbital flight.
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First women in space by USSR.
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First sighting of mars and flyby by U.S. NASA.
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First artificial satellite around another world (moon) purposed by USSR
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First human on moon by the U.S. (Apollo 11) successful!
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First space station in space by USSR.
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First soft landing on Mars and first signals from the surface.
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First reusable manned spacecraft by U.S.
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First spacecraft beyond the orbit of Neptune by U.S. NASA.
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First photograph of the whole solar system by U.S. NASA.
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First polar orbit around the Sun by U.S. NASA and the ESA.
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Longest duration in the orbit of earth by Valeri Polyakov (437.7 days) from Russia.
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First orbit of an asteroid by U.S. NASA.
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First landing on an asteroid by U.S. NASA.
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Kepler Mission launched first space telescope designated for research of Earth's expoplanets by USA.
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First sample of an asteroid brought back to earth by Japan.
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NASA rover successfully lands on mars to seek out life-clues by U.S. NASA
