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On this day sputnik 1 was launched into space. This is important, because it started the race to space.
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Sputnik2 was sent two months after sputnik1 was launched. Sputnik two had a dog named laika. This event is important because the soviet had sent the first animal into space.
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The explorer 1 was the first satellite sent into space by the us. This date is important because the us had caught up to the soviet union.
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The government founded NASA. This is important because with NASA the race to space would be easier then having the government building.
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In 1961 the us sent a chimp into space. The chimp came back alive.The chimps name was Ham.
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In 1961 the soviet union sent the first human into space. Yuri Gagarin was the first person into space and to come back alive. He also orbited the sun once.
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In 1963 the first woman went into space in the soviet union. Valentina Tershkova was the first woman in the world to go to space. With this the soviet has gone way farther than the us.
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In 1965 a spacecraft carrying Pavel Belyayav and Alexei Leonov. Leonov was the first person to do the spacewalk.
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July 20th, 1969 Apollo 11 landed on the moon. The Apollo 11 had Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to be the first people on the moon. Them being on the moon concluded the space race.
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1969 July 21st the soviet moon probe Luna 16 crashes on the moon. The soviet was trying to land the probe by the American landing spot. They failed and crashed it.
