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Galileo created the first telescope.
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The first telescope by Galileo Galilei
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The first space satellite that was lunched by the Soviet Union
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Explorer 1 was the first satellite launched by the United States. It was designed and built by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) of the California Institute of Technology.
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Apollo 13 was a historical event in everyone's history. Man kind landed on the moon, making it the end of the space race.
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The Hubble space telescope was lunched.
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Mae Jemison became the first African-American woman in space
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Space Shuttle Endeavour and a crew of seven blasted off with teacher-astronaut Barbara Morgan aboard as a crewmember. Morgan was the first teacher in space since the Challenger disaster in 1986.