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Sputnik was the first artificial satellite launched by the Soviet Union intensifiying the space race.
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The space race between the USSR and The USA
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Laika the dog gets into space, then on landing, dies.
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NASA was founded by the Americans to catch up in the space race.
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The seven was a group of proposed astronauts that would someday hopefully get to space.
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Yuri Gagarin was a Russian Cosmonaut who was in space for 108 minutes.
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Alan Shepard stays in space for 15 minutes.
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The Americans can send a man around the Earth then they could send a war head too.
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Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman in space
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Alexei Leonov is the first man to do a spacewalk.
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The crew of the Apollo 1 space craft are killed in a fire. Space flights halted for a year.
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The American spacecraft Apollo 11 is scheduled to fly to the moon.
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Apollo 13 has a problem and must circle the moon to get back th Earth.
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Russian and American astronauts join together and cooperate.
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Viking 1 got to Mars to take pictures of the surface.
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Sally Ride was allowed to be the first woman to travel into space.
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Challenger explodes killing all of it's crew and a teacher on board.
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Musa Manarov and Vladimir Titov were in Space for 366 days.
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The pioneer 10 goes beyond the solar system.
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The first mission of the International Space Station begins.