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Sputnik
Sputnik was the first satellite to orbit the Earth. -
Sputnik II
The Soviet Union launched a female dog named Laika into space inside of Sputnik II -
Soviet Vostok 1
Yuri Gagarin was the first person in space, riding in the Soviet Vostok 1. -
Freedom 7
Alan Shepard was the first american to go into space. -
STS-95 Space Shuttle Crew
John Glenn was the first person to orbit around Earth. -
Vostok 6
Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman to go into space. -
Voshkod 2
Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov takes the first space walk after he rode the Voshkod 2. -
Gemini 4
Edward White II was the first American to walk in space. -
Apollo 1
During a test on the launchpad, a fire killed Virgil "Gus" Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee. -
Soyuz 2
Soyuz2 crashed and killed Vladimir Komarov who is the first astronaut to die during flight. -
Apollo 11
Neil Armstrong became the first man to walk on the moon. Armstrong says "That's one small step for a man, but one giant leap for mankind." -
Apollo 13
An oxygen tank explodes in Apollo 13. With the help of Mission Control, the crew - Jim Lovell, Fred Haise, and John Swigert return to Earth safely four days later. -
Salyut 1
Salyut 1 was the first orbiting space station. -
Skylab
Skylab was the first American space station. -
Apollo-Soyuz mission
American and Soviet spacecraft dock together in space in a show of peaceful cooperation. -
Viking 1
The first rocket to land on Mars. -
STS-7
Sally Ride was the first woman to go into space. -
Woman Space walk
Svetlana Savitskaya -
Space shuttle "challenger"
First civilian death -
First year in space
Musa Manarov and Vladmir Tiov -
The Hubble Space Telescope
First Space telescope -
Pioneer 10
First Spacecraft to leave the solar system -
ISS
The first international space station. -
Mir
Shannon Lucid made the record of the first american to spend 6 months in space. -
The Robot Sojourner
A six wheeled, romote controlled, solar powered rover explores the world of Mars. Saojourner was the first surface to travel on another planet. -
Space Shuttle Discovery
At the age of 77, John Glenn is the oldest person to go into space. -
First Non-Astronaut Goes Into Space
Dennis Tito is a billionaire from California that was the first person who paid to go into outer space. -
Yang Liwei
China successfully sent Yang Liwei into space, making them the third country to sent someone into space. -
Cassini-Huygens
Cassini-Huygens was the first spacecraft to orbit around the sun.
