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Albert II was a monkey that flew 83 miles (134km) upinto the air in a V2 engine space craft. He was considered to be the first thing living thing to make it into space.
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Sputnik was the worlds first artifical satelite to be launched into space to orbit earth.
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Laika was a russian dog that was the was earthling into space and it also orbited earth. She only lasted a couple of hours because her capsule over heated.
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Soviet dogs Belka and Strelka where the first two beings to make back to earth alive. They left earth and orbited together until they made back to earth alive.
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Yuri Gagarin was the first human being to travel up into space. He orbited earth before come back down to russia and being greeted very warmly.
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Valentina Tereshkova was a soviet pilot and the first woman to leave earths atmosphere and orbit earth. She conducted some experiments on herself to see how the female body reacts to space.
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Apollo 7 was the first Apollo launch the had a crew. it weighed 16519kg.
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Apollo 8 was a big success it was the first manned mission to orbit earth.
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first moon landing
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first major expeiments were performed
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first sporting event played on the moon
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first probe to escape earths atmosphere
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majorly used telescope is launched
