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The sapce race is on-solviets are winning.
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USSR launches Sputnik 2 which carried a small dog named Laika into orbit.
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Explorer 2 is launched but fails to reach orbit.
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The "Mercury Seven" astronauts are selected by NASA.
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N.A.S.A. need astronauts and puts them through extremely hard test, like blowing up balloons until there out of breathe.
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The US launches Discoverer XIV, its first camera equipped spy satellite.
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Soviets launch Yuri Gagarian into orbit and lands safely. His first words: "it was hot in there".
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Soviets lainch yuri gagarin into orbit and lands safely.
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Scott Carpenter repeats John Glenn's flight aboard "Aurora 7".
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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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Ed White performs America's first spacewalk. Jim McDivitt remains in the Gemini capsule.
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Venus 3 is launched. It becomes the first man made object to impact Venus on March 1, 1966.
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Luna 9 becomes the first spacecraft to soft-land on the Moon.
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Luna 10 becomes the first satellite to orbit the Moon.
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3 NASA men killed in alaunchpad fire. NASA decides to call of all flights for the rest of the year.
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Death of comosaut in Soviets send them to halt flights for a year.
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Zond 5 is launched. It carried a biological payload (including two turtles) around the Moon and returned to Earth six days later.
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The crew of Apollo 7 begin a 10 day mission to study the new spacecraft.
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Soyuz 4 & 5 perform the first Soviet spacecraft docking.
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Pete Conrad and Alan Bean perform the first precision lunar landing, touching down just 600 feet from the Surveyor 3 probe that arrived two years earlier.
