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Galileo built the first telescope.
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Robert Goddard launced the first liquid-fueled rocket.
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The dwarf planet Pluto was discovered by Clyde Tombaugh in Flagstaff Arizona.
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Fruit flies were the first animals to be launched into space on to the V2 rocket.
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Albert 1 was the first monkey to be launched into space.
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The Soviet Union launched the first satellite called Sputnik into space.
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Laika was the first dog launched in space but the first animal to go into orbit he was on the Soviet Sputnik 2 spacecraft. But Laika did not make it back alive.
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The soviet craft Sputnik five was launched with two dogs named Strelka and Belka and they came back alive.
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A russian cosmonaut named Yuri Gagarih baecame the first human in space.
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Valentina Nikolayeva Tereshkova was the first lady to be in space.
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The Russian Spacecraft called Luna 9 was the first spacecraft to land on the moon.
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Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first men on the moon.
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The US launched ou first space station calld Skylab.
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Eileen Collins became the first female shuttle pilot.
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John Glenn became the oldest man in space.
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The US NEAR started to transmit images of the streroid Eros.
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The NEAR spacecraft landed on the Surface of Eros.
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When investigating they found a panel that superheated air almost seeped through a breach in space shuttle Columbia's left wing and maybe its wheel compartment during the re-entery of Eaths atmosphere, which caused seven astronauts to die.
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NASA launched the largest-diameter infared telescope ever in space, called the Spitzer space telescope.
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NASA's spacecraft Stardust returned to Earth in a desert near Salt Lake City with the first dust ever to be collected from a comet.
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The NASA's spacecraft Kepler was launched. Its mission was to search for planets outside our solar system, in a distant area of the Milky Way.
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The space shuttle Atlantis became the last Amerisan space shuttle to be launched into space.