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the soviets launch sputnik creating the first artificial satellite to orbit earth. This advancement gives the US fear and motivates the US to work quicker.
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The USSR launches Laika, a small dog, into space to become not the first animal in space but the first animal to orbit earth.
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The US launches its first successful satellite into space also becoming the first spacecraft to detect the Van Allen radiation belt
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The US forms NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration)
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"Ham", a chimpanzee, is the first animal to enter space representing the USA
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The first man in space's name was Yuri Gargin from the USSR, not only was he the first man in space but first to orbit the earth.
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Alan Shepard became the first American man in space, but not the first man,
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President Kennedy commits the US to landing on the moon by the end of the decade.
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John Glenn was the first american to orbit the earth.
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An uncrewed test flight testing the structural integrity of new spacecraft
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The first EVA done was by a man with the soviet union who accomplished an EVA lasting 12 minutes and 9 seconds outside the Voskhod 2 spacecraft
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designed to create testing for the docking of the agena target vehicle
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gemini was a mission that was a gateway from mercury missions into apollo missions
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Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin preform the first American EVA with the moon landing
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73 seconds after the launch of the challenger crashing into the atlantic after reaching an altitude of 50,000 feet
