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Soviet union sent this satilite into space and it set off the space race
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The Soviet Union launches a dog into space on sputnik 2.Laika proved that humans could live in space.
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Alan Shepard,first american in space,goes up into spac on freedom 7.Then John F Kennedy vows to send people up to the moon befoe the end of the decade.
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Valentina Teresh Kova was the first woman in space and she was aboard Vostok 6.
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Alexei Leonox takes the first space walk,a 10 minute tethered exorsion Voshkod 6.http://teacher.scholastic.com/
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Edward White 2 is the first american to walk in space.
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All three astronauts for NASA's Apollo 1 mission suffocate from smoke inhalation.
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Apollo 7, the first manned Apollo mission, launched on a 11-day mission in earth orbit. The mission also featured Live Tv broadcast of humans in space.
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Apollo 8 launches on Saturn V and becomes the first manned mission to orbit the moon.
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Apollo 9 launches. Tests of the lunar model are conducted in Earth orbit.
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6 years after US President John F Kennedy's assassination the Apollo 11 crew lands on the moon fullfilling his promise to put an American there by the end of the decade and return him safely to Earth.
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