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Launch of Sputnic 1
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The launch of sputnic 1 spurred the us to start creating their own spaceships. -
N.A.S.A. was formed
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Nasa started with 12 unpaid, highly qualified men with a 5,000 dollar budget. Nasa made fundimental aeronaughtic breakhroughs in designing air and spacecrafts. -
Luna 2 is launched
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Luna 2 lands on the moon, becoming the first spacecraft to do so. -
Trios 1 is launched
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Trios 1 sucessfully made it to space and sent back the first accurate weather readings. -
Yuri Gagarin orbits the Earth
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Yuri orbits the earth once, and becomes the first man in space. -
John Glenn orbits the Earth three times
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For 4 hours and 56 minutes, Jon orbits the earth three times, unlike Yuri Gagarin, who only orbited once. -
President Kennedy is assassinated
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President Kennedy is assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald, a recently hired employee at the Texas School Book Depository. -
Luna 9 is launched
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Luna 9 became the first man-made object to soft-land on the moon. -
Zond 5 launches
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Zond 5 carried two Russian tortoises, wine flies, meal worms, plants, seeds, bacteria, and other living matter into space to record data about how living things react in space. -
Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin become the first men to walk on the Moon
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Niel and Buzz take apollow 11 to the moon, and become the first men on the moon. The U.S. had finally won the space race.