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The sovient launched Sputnik the first artificial satilite. This event starts the space race between United States and the Sovient Union.
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NASA job was to put the first human in space by President Eisenhower and the U.S. Congress to restore America's reputation. The astranauts had to be no taller then 5 feet 11 and between the ages of 25 and 40. All the astronauts had to be militery test pilots. In April 9 1959 Nasa sent seven astronauts and they were known as the Seven.
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In 1961 the Sovient Union sent the first human into space. On January 27, 1967 the crew of Apollo 11 gets killed in a fire on launch pad and on April 23, the Sovient Unions cosmonaut's space craft's parachute fails on re-entry. Both space programs halt for a year.
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NASA schedules Apollo 11 as the first manned mission to the moon. The astronauts in Apollo 11 were Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, and Buzz Aldrin.
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uly 16, 1969, Apollo 11 stands on the launchpad, ready for liftoff. A few days earlier Americans saw the Sovient Unions rocket launch but a few days after that the rocket had exploded. When Apollo 11 is ready for liftoff, the astronaunts are ready.
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Viking 1, an unmanned scientific probe controlled by scientists on Earth, transmits the first pictures from the surface of Mars.
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The crew of space shuttle mission STS-31 deploy the Hubble Space Telescope. The Hubble Telescope provided the first images of the galexies and planets outside of our solar system.
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Pioneer 10 was the first spacecraft to leave the solar system. It was 50 times more farther from the sun than Earth. It launched on March 2, 1972.
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The robot Sojourner is a remote-controlled, solar-powered rover that sends images of the planet’s surface and investigates chemical properties of Martian soil. It was abored the space probe Pathfinder to explore the surface of Mars.
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Cassini-Huygens became the first spacecraft to go into orbit around Saturn. Later in the year it also orbited Sturn's moon Titan.
