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1957: Sputnik~ The U.S.S.R launches sputnik 1 the first artiflcial satellite to orbit the earth
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1961: Gagarin~ Sovlet cosmonaut yuri Gagarin becomes the first human in space
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1962: Around the world~Aboard the friendship 7, John Glenn is the first American to obrit the earth
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1965: look at mars~ NASA’s Mariner 4 conducts the first mars flyby.
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1969: One small step~Neil armstrong becomes the first human to walk on the moons surface.
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1971: Salyut~ Russia’s salyut 1 (the worlds first space station) is launched from an unmanned rocket
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1977: Voyagers~ America’s Voyager 1 and 2 deep space probes are launched
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1979: Jupiters Flyby: During jupiter flyby cameras aboard voyager 1 detect a ring largely made of dust around the planet anolcanones on lo, its moon.
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1981: Columbia~ The U.S space shuttle era begins with the flight of Columbia.
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1990: Space telescope~ The Hubble space telescope is deployed in earth orbit space shuttle discovery.
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1995: Joint effort~ The U.S space shuttle Atlantis docks to the russian space station Mlr.
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1997: Exploring mars~ A u.s rover named Sojourer wheels onto the surface of mars to explores the planet’s geology
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1998: Cooperation in space~ The International space station is established.
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2004: pay to fly~Virgin Galactic, a company owned by entrepreneur Richard Branson, accepts
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2011: Mercury~ The U.S messenger mission to mercury launched in 2004 finally begins its year long orbit of that planet. Its observtions have, so far, added evidence to the theory that mercury’s shadowed polar craters contain water ice.