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The USSR sent spuntik 1 into space as the first artifical satellite to orbit the earth
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Novmember 3, 1957 the USSR launches spuntik 2 which carried a small dog named Lakia into orbit.
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January 31 ,1958 explorer 1 the first american satellite to reach orbit, is launched it carried scientific equipment that lead to the the discovery of the Van Allen radiation belt
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The United States launched Vanguard 1 satellite and it continues to function for 3 years
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USSR launched Sputnik 3
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Luna 1 is launched by USSR it's the first man made object to orbit the sun.
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Luna 2 is launched it impacts the moon on September 13,becoming the first man made object to do so .
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Tiros 1, the first successful weather satellite is launched
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Yuri Gagarin orbits the earth once and becomes the first man in space
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President Kennedy gives a speech at rice universitiy reaffirming the importance of the moon program
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L. Gordan cooper spends 34 hours in space. He is the last american to fly in space alone
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Ranger 7 transmits the first close range images of the moon
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Ed White performs america's first spacewalk. Jim Mcdivitt remains in the Gemini capsule
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Lunar orbiter 1 enters orbit around themoon and takes the first picture of earth from distance
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Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee were killed when fire ignites in their capsule while performing a test on the Apollo 1 launch pad .
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Venera 4 transmits data about the atmosphere of Venus(USSR)
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The crew of Apollo 7 began a 10 day mission to study the new space craft (U.S)
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Soyuz 4 & 5 perform the first Soviet Union space craft
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