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start off for the space race -
Laika dog
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explorer 1
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founder: Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Ham chimpanzee part of project mercury was trained to pull levers in case of lights -
Yuri Gagarin Vostok 1 complete 1 orbit around Earth known as a cosmonaut in Russia
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Alan Shepard JR. freedom 7 15 minute suborbital
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John Glenn Friendship 7 4 hrs 56 mins 3 orbits also known as the mercury-atlas 6 launched Cape Canaveral, Florida recovered atlantic ocean
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Rice University Houston, Texas
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Alexei Leonov Voskhod 2 12 mins 9 secs had to partially deflate suit
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Ed White Gemini 4 23 mins handheld maneuvering unit pulled by tether inside capsule again
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4th crewed flight crew; Frank Borman(command pilot) and James Lovell Jr.(pilot) lasted ~14 days
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known mostly as Gemini 6a members: Walter M. Schirra Jr., Thomas P. Stafford first crewed rendezvous in space is after the gemini 7 because of a drawback
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was the sixth crewed spaceflight in the gemini program members Neil A. Armstrong, David R. Scott 14th crewed American flight 22nd overall
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first crewed in the Apollo program members Walter M. Schirra Donn F. Eisele R. Walter Cunningham
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members Frank F. Borman II James A. Lovell Jr. William A. Anders made 10 successful orbits was the first human spaceflight to reach the moon and leave Earth's gravitational sphere of influence
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3rd crewed flight in the Apollo program made a singular EVA members James A. McDivitt David R. Scott Russell L. Schweickart
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2nd flight in the Apollo program to orbit the moon members Thomas P. Stafford John W. Young Eugene A. Cernan
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1st to land a human on the moon members Neil Armstrong Buzz Aldrin Michael Collins
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was going to be the 3rd crewed flight on the moon members James A. Lovell Jr. John L. Swigert Jr. Fred W. Haise Jr.
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blew up 73 secs after launch with a teacher abroad caused by a failed O-ring seal members Francis R. Scobee Michael J. Smith Judith A. Resnik Ellison S. Onizuka Ronald E. McNair Gregory B. Jarvis teacher S. Christa McAuliffe