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Sputnik
It was the Soviet Union's 1st artificial sattilite and it began the space race
Soviet Union
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Space Timeline
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Explorer 1
It was America's 1st sattilite put into earth's orbit and it was launched after Sputnik 1 & 2
U.S.A.
Earth's orbit -
The discoverer 14
Was the 1st sattilite into space by coming of a moving space-craft into orbit and the reattaching in mid-air.
U.S.
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Luna 9
It was the first space-craft to have a lina landing. Lin also took pictures of the moon, but these pictures were'nt imidialtly released.
Russians
Moon -
Luna 10
It was the 1st space-craft to orbit the moon. It also finished it's orbit in 3 hrs.
Russians
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Soyuz 1
It was a manned space-craft holding Vladimir Komorov. It was the 1st Soyuz series and on it's return to earth it had technical problems and caused a crash and the death of Vladimir Komorov.
Russia
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Apollo 8
1st manned space-craft to orbit the moon. And it also a 3 man crew that included Frank Borman, James Lovell, and William Anders. It took 3 days, 10 orbits, and 20 hrs.
Frank Borman, James Lovell, and William Anders
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Apollo 11
Was the 1st flight that took man to the moon and it was a great achivement because the U.S.beat the Soviet Union to the moon.
U.S.
Moon -
Apollo 17 "Return from the moon"
It was the last day that the United States wint to the moon and since that day no one has went to the moon since.
United States
Moon -
Columbia
The inportant thing for the Colubia space-craft was to carry satellites and other equipment into space and repair them there if necessary and to allow astronauts to conduct space experiments for studying weightlessness called "microgravity." -
Challenger
It was the U.S. space shuttle theat exploded in 73 seconds into flight.This helped the U.S. because it made them study there mistakes and fix it
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Atlantis
It was the U.S. space-shuttle that was sent to the moon that included 4 passengers
U.S.
Moon -
Veunes Probe
This probe was launched from the satillite Atlantis now the U.S. was able to take a closer look of Veunus
U.S.
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Galilio
During it's 2 year prime mission. Galilio made 11 orbits around Jupiter and photographed Jupiter's large moons; Io, Collisto, Garymade, and Europa -
Hubble Space Telescope
The $2 billion Edwin P. Hubble Space Telescope (HST) was lifted into orbit by the space shuttle Discovery on April 24, 1990. Weighing approximately 25,500 lb (11,000 kg) and measuring 43 ft (13 m) long by 14 ft (4 m) wide, or roughly the size of a school bus, HST is the most complex and sensitive space observatory ever constructed, and it has become astronomers' principal tool for exploring the universe.
U.S.
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