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Sputnik was the first satalite to reach space!
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The soviet union launched sputnik (the first sattalite).
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Laika was the first animal in space proving that animals could survive in outer space.
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Vostok 1 was an aircraft that held the first human to reach space (Yuri Gagarin).
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The first american entered space entering us in the space race. The first person in space for the americans was Alan Shepard.
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Jhon Glenn becomes the first american to orbit the earth and is the oldest man in space at 77 years old.
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velentine was the first women in space
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Alexei Leonov took the first space walk that took ten minutes.
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This is when the first american took a space walk. He went out for twenty two minutes.
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On Apollo 1 three astronauts were killed in a fire. (virgill grissom, edward White, and Rodger Chafee).
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Niel Armstrong was the first person to set foot on the moon.
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On apollo 13 an air tank explodes but the astronauts survived and returned to earth four days later.
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The first american space station was damged at departure but was fixed in space by three crews that landed there.
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this was when the soviet and the USA both docked on the same station.
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The viking one was the first satallite to take pictures of mars.
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The rocket formation was still the same but now it takes off like a normal rocket but lands like an airplane also making it reusable instead of being destroyed in the fall to earth.
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Sally ride was the first american women in space on the STS-7. On its next flight the first african american boardsnand goes to space.
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svetlana savitskaya does the first women space walk when she goes and welds outside.
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The challenger exploded killing seven passengers (the first civillian death in space).
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two russians spend a whole year in space breaking the record. There record is broken in 1995 a man spent 437 days.
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The first telescope was launched to space this is told to be the farthest eeing telescope even better then the one we have on hawaii.
