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Robert Goddard was the first person to send a liquid fueled rocket into space.
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Sputnik 1 was the first atifficial sattilite. It was launched in 1957 by the soviets. It orbited 57 days before it fell back to earth.
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Sputnik 2 was the second spacecraft launched into Earth orbit and was the first biological spacecraft.
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Sputnik 3 was an automatic scientific laboratory spacecraft. It was conically-shaped and was 3.57 m long.
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Luna 1, first man-made satellite to orbit the moon, is launched by the U.S.S.R.
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Luna 2 is launched, impacting on the moon on September 13 carrying a copy of the Soviet coat of arms, and becoming the first man-made object to hit the moon.
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Discoverer XIV launches the first U.S. camera-equipped Corona spy satellite.
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Yuri Gagarin was a Soviet Cosmonaut who was the first to enter space and orbit the earth.
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Neil Armsring was the first person to land on the moon.
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Launched on March 2, 1972, Pioneer 10 was the first spacecraft to pass through the asteroid belt and the first to make direct observations and obtain close-up images of Jupiter.
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Pioneer 11 was the second mission to investigate Jupiter and the outer solar system and the first to explore the planet Saturn and its main rings.
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Space Shuttle Endeavour is launched carrying the Raffaello logistics module back to the ISS with new supplies.
