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Galileo invented the first telescope.
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Galileo was the first to see the moon through a tescope up close.
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Robert Goddard launched the first liquid fueled rockets.
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The Soviet Union launched its first rocket into space.
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The first animals were launched in space (fruit flies) by America.
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The Soviet Union lunched Sputnik in orbit.
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Explorer 1 was the first sattallite launched into space by the United States of America.
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Yuri Gagarin (Russia) became the first human in space.
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Alan Shepard became the first American in space.
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Valentina Nikolayeva Tereshkova became the first woman in space.
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Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were the first men to walk on the moon.
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The U.S. launched its first space station called Skylab.
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Voyagers 1 and 2 were launched. Voyagers 2 was lunched first but Voyager 1 is on a faster tragactery than 2.
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On Challenger’s second mission, Sally Ride became the first American woman in space.
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The Space Shuttle Challenger exploded seconds after liftoff.
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The NASA spacecraft Kepler was launched and it’s mission is to search for planets outside our solar system.
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President Barack Obama signed legislation on exploring Mars and the asteroids fro NASA.
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NASA launched Curiosity, the biggest, best equipped robot ever sent to explore another planet. It will reach Mars in 2012.
