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Launched the first human-made object to orbit the Earth.
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USSR launches Sputnik 2 which held a small dog named Laika into space and orbit. They knew there was no possible way of bringing him back and the dog did die in space.
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It continued to function for 3 years after.
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It was the first man made object to orbit.
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It was the first launched camera equipped spy satellite in space,
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Yuri Gagarin orbits the Earth once and becomes the first man in space.
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Alan B. Shepard becomes the first American in space. This for americans was a long awaited achievment.
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Walter Schirra orbits the Earth six times. This double John Glenns orbits around the moon just a couple months earlier.
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U.S. Ranger 7 showed the first close up photo of the moon.
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First U.S. Space walk from Gemini 4.
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It was the first man made object to impact Venus on March 1, 1966.
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First space craft with somebody to die.
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They did achieve the first human on the moon.
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Geostationary communications satellite. Canada was the accomplished country.
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Apollo 17 was the last Apollo mission to land men on the Moon. It carried the only trained geologist to walk on the lunar surface, lunar module pilot Harrison Schmitt.
