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Its 1957 and the USA and the USSR are in a cold war, the Russians launch their first sattelite called sputnik.
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The USSR launches a second sputnik with a dog aboard named Laika.
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America launches a satellite called the Explorer 1. It has scientific equipment aboard that lead to the discovery of the Van Allen Radiation Belt.
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Explorer 2 is launched but it fails to reach orbit.
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NASA is formed.
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Nasa needs astronauts to go into space and they choose seven people to go into space for the first time.
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Tiros 1, the first successful weather satellite, is launched.
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Tiros 1, the first successful weather satellite, is launched.
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The Russians send the first man, Yuri Gagarin to be the first man to go into space a month before Americans.
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The Americans send Alan Shepard into space and he orbits for 15 minutes. The Russians are not impressed.
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John Glenn goes into space and orbits all the way around the world for about 4 hours. After this America can send warheads anywhere in the world (just like the Russians).
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Cosmonaut Valentia Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space.
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Ranger 7 transmits the first close range images of the Moon.
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Alex Leonov does the first spacewalk for 12 minutes.
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Venus 3 becomes the first man-made object to impact Venus.
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Luna 9 becomes the first man-made object to softland on the moon.
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Lunar Orbiter 1 takes a picture of the earth while in the orbit of the moon.
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The Crew of appollo 1, Virgil Grissom, Edward White II, and Roger Chafee all die in a launchpad fire accident.
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Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin become the first men to walk on the Moon while crewmate Michael Collins orbits around the Moon alone.
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John Glenn goes into space again and makes a record for the oldest man to go into space.
