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USSR lauches the first Satellite- 1 into Space, to be put in Earths orbit.
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Laika was a Soviet Space dog, and the first dog to orbit Earth.
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Explorer I is the first American satellite lauched in to Space to be put in Earths Orbit like Sputnik I. Then America found out about Van Allen radiation belt.
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Luna 3 orbits the Moon and photographs 70% of its surface.
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John F. Kennedy is elected the 35th President of the United States.
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John Glenn orbits the Earth three times.
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Cosmonaut Valentia Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space.
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Mariner 4 returns close ranger images of Mars.
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Luna 9 was the first spacecraft to achieve a lunar soft landing and to transmit photographic data from the Moon's surface to Earth, preceding the U.S. Surveyor 1 soft lander by about 4 months.
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Luna 10 becomes the first satellite to orbit the Moon.
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American Astronaut Edward Givens dies in a horrible automobile accident.
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USSR Venera 4 transmits data about the atmosphere of Venus.
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Frank Borman, James Lovell, and William Anders begin the first manned journey from the Earth to the Moon. On Christmas Eve they take turns reading Genesis in a broadcast heard around the world.
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Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin become the first men to walk on the Moon while crewmate Michael Collins orbits around the Moon alone.
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Apollo 17 was the last mission to the moon.
