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The U.S.S.R. launched the first man-made object into space.
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Sputnik 2 was in orbit for 7 days and was launched by the U.S.S.R. It was in orbit until April 13,1958.
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The Explorer One was the first U.S. satellite in obit.
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The USA attempted to launch explorer two into obit with a Jupiter-C rocket and failed.
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The U.S.S.R. launched the first man-made satellite into space to orbit the moon.
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The U.S. finally successfully launched a weather satellite.
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The first U.S. camera-equipped Corona spy satellite.
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The U.S.S.R. launches Cosmonaut Yuri A. Gargarin into space as the first man in space. He orbited the moon one time.
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The United States launched the first Astronaut into space in a suborbital flight. His name was Alan B. Shepard.
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Vostok 6 took the first woman, Soviet Cosmonaut Valentia Tereshkova, into space and orbited the Earth 48 times.
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The Ranger 7 went up into space and took the first ever close-range photographs of the moon.
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Edward White II was the first man to walk from Gemini 4. He's American.
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Luna 9 was the first spaceship to soft-land on the moon.
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It impacted on venus and was the first rocket to reach another planet. Sadly, the rocket did not return data.
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Apollo 13 was launched and its SM Oxygen tanks exploded. The moonlanding was abandoned and the crew returned to Earth safely.
