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Launching of Sputnik 1
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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Launching of Sputnik 1-Apollo 17
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Explorer 1 is launched
Explorer 1 carried scientific equipment that lead to the discovery of the Van Allen radiation belt. -
Sputnik 3 is launched.
was a cone-shaped satellite 1.74 meters in diameter. A research satellite to explore the upper atmosphere, and the near space -
Pioneer one is launched.
first air craft launched by NASA. The Flight was the second and most successful of the three Thor-Able spca probes -
Luna 1 is launched.
It is the first man made object to orbit the sun. the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon -
Tiros 1 is launched.
Tiros 1 was the first successful weather satellite launched into space. -
Yuri Gagarin orbits the Earth once.
He was the first man in space -
Alan B. Shepard is the first American in space.
He also commanded the apollo 14 mission and became the 5th person to walk on the moon. -
John Glenn orbits the Earth three times.
First american to orbit the Earth and third American to be in space. -
Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova is the first woman in space.
she was selected to pilot Vostok 6 on the 16th of June 1963. -
Ranger 7 transmits the first close range images of the Moon.
was the first US space probe to successfully transmit close images of the lunar surface back to Earth -
Luna 9 is first spacecraft to achieve a soft landing
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Apollo 17
was the eleventh and final manned mission in the American Apollo space program.
