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First satellite sent into space.
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A larger version of Sputnik was sent into space carrying a dog, only a month after the first Sputnik was sent into space.
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The US finally sent their first satellite into space.
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Luna 3 was the first sucessful spacecraft that was sent into space to circle the moon, and sent images to Earth.
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Ham, the monkey was sent into space.
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The Soviet Union sent a mannequin named Ivan Ivanovich into space to test the spacecraft and pressure suit.
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Yuri was the first person sent into space.
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John Glenn became the first American to orbit Earth.
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Russia is the first to send a women into space.
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V. M. Komarov, K. P. Feoktistov and B. B. Yegorov were the first people sent as a group into space.
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Pavel Belyayev and Alexei Leonov become the first two to spacewalk.
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American Edward White the 3rd becomes the first to spacewalk.
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Frank Borman and Jim Lovell set a record, at the time, for the longest time in space. They were in space for a total of 14 days.
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USSR launches the probe to achieve lunar orbit, the 1st object to do that.
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USSR sends Zond 5 to go around the moon and back to Earth.
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After redesigning the Apollo series enters Earth's orbit test the spacecraft.
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This will be the America's first manned orbit around the moon.
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America finally reaches the moon, and Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldren are the first and only men to walk on the moon.