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October,4 1957 the USSR launched Spuntnik the first ever artificial satelite,it was also the first man made object to be placed into space the USSR was even capable of sending a nuclear warhead into U.S. air space.
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November,3 1957 The USSR launched sputnik 2 into our orbit but sputnik 2 was diffrent from spuntik 1 because it carried a small dog named laika
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January,31 1958 Explorer 1 the first American satelitle reached orbit.This Explorer 1 carried equitment which will eventually lead to the diiscorvery of the Van Allen Belt.
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Luna 1 was launched by the USSR,it was also the first man-made object to orbit around the sun
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Tiros 1 was one of the first ever weather satelite launched into our orbit or space.
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The president John F. Kennedy challenged the whole nation to make it to the moon before the end of the decade.
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The NASA space progam picked the second space group of astronauts to go into outer space.
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L.Gordan Cooper spent 34 hours in space,after this he was the last man to ever go back into space himself
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Atronaut Theoder Freeman sadly died in a really bad plane crash
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Alexei Leanov had spent 12 minutes outside of the spacecrafft he was in while he was out he performed the first ever space walk
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Lunar 1 entered orbit around the earth and took a picture from that distance
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Astronaut Edward Givens was tragically killed while driving his automobile
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Zond 5 was launched into space it carried 2 turtles and a biological payload
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Apollo 7 crew started a 10 day study of the new spacecraft
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Neil Armstrong and his partner Edwin Buzz became the two men to walk on the moon while their partner Michael Collins orbited around the moon alone.
