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Sputnik 1 was the first thing, man-made, to ever go into space. Though Russia was the first to do so it still shocked the world.
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Sputnik sent an animal into outerspace though she died shortly after entering space from symptoms of stress and overheating. Though the Space Association did not devise a plan to bring her back they felt that she would not have survived anyhow.
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This Launch followed the first two previous Earth satellites Soviet's Sputnik 1 and 2
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After seeing the Sputnik lauch out of space, a litlle while later NASA was formed
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Yuri Gagarin, a Russian Soviet pilot, who beacame famous for being the first man in space. He orbited around the Earth for 108 minutes.
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Vostok 1 was the first space flight to enter outer space in history. This flight took Yuri Gagarin into space.
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Alan Shepard, An American, who became known for being the second person in space but the first american to enter space.
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Mariner 2 was the first successful spacecraft in the entire NASA Mariner program. It is an American space probe that was sent to Venus to gather information
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Out of four hundred aplicants and five finalists, a Russian woman by the name of Valentina Tereshkova, was the first woman to leave the Earth's orbit.
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Luna 9, was an unmanned space mission of the Soviet Union's Lunar program, It was the first space probe to achieve a soft landing on a planetary object other than Earth and successfully transmit photographic data to Earth.
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Ranger 7 was the first U.S space probe to successfully transmit close images of the lunar surface back to Earth.
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Apollo 8 was the first mission ever to successfully obit the moon ten times and successfully return home.
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The first mission ever to successfully land on the moon and return home safely.
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Buzz Aldron and Neil Armstrong are the first people in history to land on the moon
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Was the end of the Space Race it was the eleventh and final manned mission. There were no more mission into space after Apollo 17 ruturn safely from the moon.
