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The Soviet Union and the United States were in a "Cold War"
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USSR lanches Sputnik 2 which carried a small dog named Laika into orbit.
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Explorer 1, the first American satelliten to reach orbit, is launched. It carried scientific equipment that lead to the discovery of the Van Allen radiation belt.
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United states launched a satellite into orbit
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In the US Pioneer 4 is launched on a Earth-Moon trajectory. It passed within 37,000 miles of the moon before falling into a solar orbit.
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President John F Kennedy launched a program of space exploration and scientific research.
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The first man to orbit the earth was John Glenn in the United States
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Preident John F Kennedy gives a speach at rice University reaffirming the importance of the moon program.
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Neilarmstrong and Edwin Aldrid became the first men to walk on the moon.
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In the US Pete Conrad and Alan Bean perform the first presision lunar landing, touching down just 600 feet from the Surveyor 3 probe that arrived 2 years earlier.
