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Galileo discovered that a planet is joined by 3 stars in a line on Jan. 7th, 1610. When observing the sky.
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Robert H. Goddard launched the 1st liquid fueled rocket on March 16, 1926 in Auburn, Massachusetts.
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The first v-2 rocket was a deadly weapon in war which was on Oct. 3rd, 1942 in Peenemunde, Germany. It was created by rocket-scientist Wernher Von Braun.
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Tsygan and Dezik were the first dogs in space, their shuttle launched on July 22, 1951 by the soviet union. They were the first mammals who were recovered.
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Sputnik, the first artificial satellite, was launched at 10:29pm on Oct 4th, 1957, from Kazakh republic. Burned in space in Jan. of 1958.
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The 1st human in space was Yuri Gagarin who became a hero in the Soviet Union. His flight Departed April 12th 1961.
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Alan Shepard was the first American to go to space this space flight took place on the 5th of April 1961. His flight launched off of Cape Canaveral Florida.
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Neil Armstrong was the first person to step on the moon, on his flight he went with Buzz Aldrin and Mike Collins. They launched on July 16th 1969.
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The Salyut 1 was the first space station, it was launched by the Soviet Union in 1971.
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Astronaut Bruce McCandless was the first person to do an untethered spacewalk oh, this took place on February 7th 1984.
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On January 28th 1986 Nasa's Challenger space shuttle exploded 73 seconds after liftoff.
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On October 15th of 1997 the space shuttle took off with the Cassini orbiter and the Huygens probe.
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On March 6th of 2009 the Kepler spacecraft was launched in the Delta II.
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The cassini-huygens mission was completed on September 15th 2017 when the probe intentionally crashed into Saturn's rings. In order to not spread of contamination.
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On February 6th 2018 a cherry red Tesla and a mannequin driver were launched and are still in orbit.
