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The US sent fruit flies in a V-2 rocket, to explore the effects of radiation.
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No astronauts were involved in this mission. It was the first man made satellite put into space.
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The first animal space was a dog named Laika, which was apart of Sputnik 2 mission.
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Did not contain any astronauts in this mission. First mission that sent a U.S.A. satellite into space.
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The U.S. congress passes legislation to create NASA in response of the USSR sending Sputnik to space.
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The first man in space for the USSR was a man named Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin.
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The first man in space for the USA was a man named Alan Shepard.He traveled in space in the Freedom 7 capsule.
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Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin also orbited around the Earth in the same mission that took him into space.
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The Speech told Congress and the United States that the next big mission would to get the first man on the moon.
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John Glenn was the first man to orbit the Earth for the US.
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The first man to do a EVA for the USSR was named Alexei Leonov who spent 12 minutes out of his spacecraft.
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The first man to do a EVA for the the US was named Ed White.
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The mission achieved the first crewed rendezvous with another space craft.
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In command pilot Elliot See and pilot Charles Bassett, were killed in a crash on February 28, 1966 while flying a T-38 jet trainer to the McDonnell Aircraft plant in St.
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On January 27, 1967 when the crew of Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee were killed in a fire in the Apollo Command Module during a preflight test at Cape Canaveral.
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The first 3 manned mission was launched,the first TV downlink from the spacecraft and hot food was available.
