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June 19- Sally Ride became the first American woman in space on Challengers second mission.
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October 4- The Soviet Union launched the first satellite, into space, Sputnik.1.
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April 12- Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space.
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May 5- Astronaut Alan Shepard became the first American in space.
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February 20- astronaut John Glenn became the first American in orbit.
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June 16- Valentina Nikolayeva Tereshkova became the first woman in space.
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March 18- While tethered to his spacecraft, cosmonaut Alexi Leonov became the first man to walk in space.
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June 3- Astronaut Ed White became the first American to walk in space.
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February 3- The Russian spacecraft Luna became the first spacecraft to land on the moon.
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June 2- Surveyor 1 became the first American spacecraft to land on the moon.
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September 15- The soviet spacecraft Zond 5 was launched and later became the first spacecraft to orbit the moon and return to Earth.
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December 21- Apollo 8 was launched, and later her crewmembers became the first men to orbit the moon.
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July 20- Neil Armstrong and “Buzz” Aldrin became the first men on the moon! They arrived on the Apollo 11.
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April 11- Apollo 13 was launched.
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December 15- The Soviet Venerea 7 became the first probe to land on Venus.
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July 30- The moon rover was driven on the moon for the first time.
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December 11- Eugene Cernan and Harrison “Jack” Schmitt became the last men to walk on the moon.
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May 14- The U.S. launched its first space station, Skylab.
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August 26- Voyager 2 reached Saturn and began transmitting images.
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June 19- Sally Ride became the first American woman in space on Challengers second mission.
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February 3- Astronaut Bruce McCandless became the first man to take an untethered space walk.
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January 24- Voyager 2 began transmitting images from Uranus.
