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The Soviet Union launched the first satellite into space called Sputnik before the Americans.
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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) was created by President Eisenhower to send men to the moon so they could get ahead of the Russians.
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NASA chose the The Seven which is 7 men who were chosen to fly into space.
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The Soviets make a leap in front of the USA by sending the first human into space, Yuri Gagarin who made a full orbit around Earth and landed safely.
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In an effort to catch up to the Russians the USA sends Alan Shepard into space, he only orbits for about 15 minutes, but it shows the USA is still in the race.
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The USA trys to send another man into space, Gus Grissom. He orbits for 15 minutes and then almost drowns in the splash down.
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The Russians send another human into space, Gherman Titov. This time the orbit lasts 25 hours and lands safely. Looks like the Russians are starting to get ahead.
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The USA sends John Glenn into orbit on the Friendship 7 making the best launch for the USA yet.
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Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman to go to space in the Vostok 6, being one of the big successes of the Soviet's.
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The Russians make another huge success by sending the first 3 man crew into space on the Soyuz 11 which contained Georgi Dobrovolski, Viktor Patsayev, and Vladislav Volkov.
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Alexei Leonov becaomes the first man to space walk, which is another big success of the Russians.
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The American Apollo 1 crew is killed in a launch pad fire in an attempt to do a practice run. The victoms are Gus Grissom, Edward White II, and Roger Chaffee.
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One of the Russian's spacecrafts has a parachute fail coming back to orbit killing the cosmonaut that was inside. His name is unknown.
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NASA launched Apollo 11 containing Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Micheal Collins in hopes to set foot on the moon.
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After 4 days and and almost running out of fuel to land Apollo 11 finally successfully lands on the moon. America did it!
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Finally after countless months of training and practice Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin take the first steps on the Moon.
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The Apollo 11 crew successfully returns to Earth which has lots of celebrating and happiness. America did it!
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Skylab the first space station was sent into space, but later failed because it was too expensive to send supplies to it.
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Sally Ride is chosen from thousands of people to be one of the top scientists for NASA.
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John Glenn makes another orbit in space on the STS-95, being the oldest person to go to space.
