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Albert II was the first monkey in space.
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Yuri Gagarin was a Russian Soviet pilot and the first human to journey into outer space.
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John Glenn orbited Earth in the Friendship 7 Capsule.
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Apollo 8 was launched on December 21, 1968, and became the first crewed spacecraft to leave Earth orbit, reach the Earth's Moon, orbit it and return safely to Earth. Saturn V was a rocket built to send people to the moon.
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Apollo 11 was the flight that got the first humans on the moon. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were the first humans on the moon.
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Apollo 14 was the third mission to land on the moon.
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Sally Ride was the first woman in space.
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On January 28, 1986, the NASA shuttle orbiter mission STS-51-L and the tenth flight of Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart 73 seconds into its flight, killing seven crew members.
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Space Shuttle Columbia was the first space rated orbiter in NASA's space shuttle fleet. It launched its last flight on January 16th 2003.
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Phoenix was a robotic spacecraft on a space exploration mission on Mars under the Mars Scout Program.
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MESSENGER was a NASA robotic spacecraft that orbited the planet Mercury between 2011 and 2015.
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Space Shuttle Atlantis is a Space Shuttle orbiter belonging to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. It has flown 33 missions. Its last flight was July 8th 2011
