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First atomic explosion in New Mexico
70 years ago the United States successfully dropped a atomic bomb -
Atomic bombings in Japan
American B-29 bomber dropped the world's first deployed atomic bomb over the Japanese city of Hiroshima. -
Soviet development of nuclear weapons
It would only be a matter of months before the U.S.S.R. exploded its own atomic bomb. -
devolpmrnt of hydrogen bomb
the US dropped it in the pacific -
USSR launches sputnik
First satellite launched -
USSR sputnik carried a small dog into orbit
test for life being able to go into orbit -
Deployment of first US ICBM
IT was first deployed in the United States in1959 and continues to be a critical weapon in American -
USSR first man made object orbit
Luna is launched by the USSR first man made object to orbit the sun -
1st american satellite
explore the 1st american satellite to reach orbit is launched -
NASA
The astronaut selected by NASA -
The US launches
first camera ecuppied spy satellite -
Gus Grissiom
launched on a sub orbital flight -
John Glenn
orbits the earth three times -
L, Gordan Cooper
spends 34 hours in space he was the last American to fly in space alone. -
Ranger 7
transmits the first close range image of the moon -
Marner 4 returns
close range images of Mars -
3 astronauts lose life in a plane crash
3 lives were lost due to weather in a plane crash -
Luna 10
Becomes the first satellite to orbit the moon -
3 are killed
when a fire ignites in there appollo capsule fails to open -
Astronaut Edward Givens
he is killed in an accident -
Yuri Gagarm
first man in space dies in a plane crash -
Zand is launched
went around the moon and returned to earth 6 days later -
Neil Armstrong and Edwin
become first man to walk the moon -
touching 600 feet
probe that arrived two years later
