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Robert Goddard with the first American rocket to use liquid fuel. This rocket was launched in 1926.
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First Suborbital Flight After two previous failures, Germany successfully launches their V-2 rocket.
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The U.S. military achieves its first high-altitude space flight using a rebuilt German V-2 rocket.
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The United States launches its first American-designed rocket. This was known as the Wac Corporal. This was successful to the Americans for designing a rocket that reached space.
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The USSR launched Sputnik 1. This was the first artificial satellite ever put into orbit. The USSR such as the Soviet Union built the Sputnik 1 and it was a successful put in orbit.
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The U.S. launched two satellites. The two satilites the U.S. built was Explore 1 and Vanguard 1. Explorer I was launched on January 31, 1958 and Vanguard 1 on March 17, 1958.
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Tiros 1, the first successful weather satellite, is launched by the United States.
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Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that landed the first humans on the Moon. NASA’s Apollo 11 mission put astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the Moon.
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Apollo 13 was the thirteenth in a series of missions using Apollo-specification flight hardware and was to be the third lunar landing.
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The U.S. Voyager 1 spacecraft, launched in 1977, arrives at Jupiter. The mission was to explore Jupiter, Saturn and their satellites. This was a successful. They arrived at Jupiter in 1979 and Saturn in 1980.
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The first space telescope put into space in 1990, Mir was called the Hubble. The Europeans built the Hubble and named it after Edwin Hubble.
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The Mars Pathfinder probe lands on the surface of Mars. Mars pathfinder is an American robotic spacecraft that landed a base station with a roving probe. This mean the American build the Mars pathfinder.
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The Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) spacecraft is successfully landed on the surface of the asteroid Eros. The Europeans landed the spacecraft on asteroid duringthe year 2001.
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The Cassini mission has been studying Saturn, including its rings and moons, since 2004. Fourth space probe to visit Saturn and the first to enter orbit, and its mission is ongoing as of 2015.
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After Russia build the Spektr-R, Russia launches the Spektr-R which becomes largest space telescope to be placed into orbit.
