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The Soviot Union successfully launched Sputnik 1. The worlds first artificial satalite was the size of a beach ball, weighed 183.9 points and took about 98 minutes to orbit the earth.
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Explorer 1 carried scientific equipment that lead to the discovery of the Van Allen radiation belt.
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was a cone-shaped satellite 1.74 meters in diameter. A research satellite to explore the upper atmosphere, and the near space
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first air craft launched by NASA. The Flight was the second and most successful of the three Thor-Able spca probes
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It is the first man made object to orbit the sun. the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon
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Tiros 1 was the first successful weather satellite launched into space.
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He was the first man in space
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He also commanded the apollo 14 mission and became the 5th person to walk on the moon.
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First american to orbit the Earth and third American to be in space.
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she was selected to pilot Vostok 6 on the 16th of June 1963.
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was the first US space probe to successfully transmit close images of the lunar surface back to Earth
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was the eleventh and final manned mission in the American Apollo space program.
