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The first space helmet was made to ensure that astronauts had enough oxygen to survive when out of the spaceship
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Dwight D. Eisenhower was the one who approved the first U.S space mission
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The first spaceship that was made was named the Sputnik 1 and weighted 83.6 kg (184 pounds)
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The first animal that went up into space was a dog named Laika
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John F. Kennedy helped get the NASA program started and funded
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John Glenn was the first American to orbit earth he was in a small space that only had room to sit
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The first man to step foot on the moon was Neil Armstrong
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The challenger was a spaceship that exploded 73 seconds after lift of killing 7 crewmembers
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The Galileo spacecraft went into orbit around Jupiter and was powered by small generators
