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1957-2003
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Sputnik
Soviet Union lunches the artificial satellite named sputnik. Sputnik means fellow-traveler. It weighed 184 pounds -
laika
Soviet Union launches a female dog into space on sputnik2. The dog was named laika which means barker in Russian she lived for seven days then was put down. -
Yuri Gagarin
riding on soviet vostok1 Yuri Gagarin was first man in space -
Alan Shepard
United States sends astronaut Alan Spepard on a 15 minute 28 seconds he was on Freedom7 -
Valentine Tereshkova
soviet launch Valentine Tereshkova on vostok6. She spends 3 days alone in space she come three miles by vostok5. -
first deaths
during a test on the launch pad a fire kills Apollo 1 astronauts Virgil Gus Grissom Ed White and Roger Chaffee. -
Neil Armstrong
during Apollo 11 Neil Armstrong becomes the first man to walk on the moon is the second Buzz Aldrin -
Apollo 13
aboard Apollo 13 the oxygen tank explodes with mission controls help Jim Lovell, Fred Haise, and John Swigert get to Earth four day later -
First space station
the first space station Skylab was damaged during launch the first crew arrive 11 days later for a 28 day stay -
Apollo_Soyuz mission
American and Soviet space craft dock together in space in a show of cooperation during Apollo-Soyuz mission -
First woman in space
Sally Ride is first woman in is space. she part of the crew for the seventh space shuttle flight STS-7. -
Chalenger explodes
the space shuttle Challenger explodes killing all crew members including the first teacher in space -
Hubble telescope
the Hubble telescope the primary mirror was damaged so they fixed it in 1993 -
The ISS Begins
phase one of the ISS is complete starting on space station Mir.we now need three more things -
Shannon Lucid
Shannon Lucid sets the record time in space she spent 189 days on the Russian space station Mir her total days in space 223. -
Landing on Mars
a space probe aboard pathfinder explores Mars. It had six wheel it was also solar powered -
Oldest Man in Space
at the age of 77 John Glenn flew aboard the space shuttle Discovery. He is now the oldest man to go into space he is also a original member of project Mercury project -
Paying to Go to Space
