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The world's first artificial satellite, and only took about 98 minutes to orbit the Earth on its elliptical path. (American)
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Sputnik 3 was launched by the Soviet Union. It was a research satellite to explore the upper atmosphere and the near space. (USSR)
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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is formed; it replaces the National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics (NACA) from the U.S.A. (American)
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Russian was sending a probe to the moon which was called Luna 2.
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Luna 3 took a photo of the farside of the moon,
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Yuri Gagarin is the 1st man to orbit the Earth and the 1st man to be in space from the Soviet Union. (USSR)
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First active communications satellite that was sent by At&t and the United States. (American)
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Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first Woman in space (USSR)
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Alexei Leonov is in space for 12 minutes outside his Voskhod spacecraft performing the 1st spacewalk from the Soviet Union. (USSR)
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Luna 9 becomes the first spacecraft to soft-land on the Moon. (USSR)
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Russia sends out a Probe that lands on another planet Venus. (USSR)
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USA-Nasa went along with Apollo 8 and did the man lunar orbit. in December.
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Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin become the first men to walk on the moon from the U.S.A. (American)
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The launching of Apollo 13; suffered an explosion, however, the crew safely come home after aborting the mission to the moon from the U.S.A. (American)
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Apollo 17 marked the last moonwalk and the last manned mission beyond low Earth orbit. The program spurred advances in many areas of technology incidental to rocketry and manned spaceflight, including avionics, telecommunications, and computers. (American)
