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The Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik 1
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The National aeronautics and Space Administration is established in the U.S. It replaces the National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics
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Luna 3 translunar satellite is launched, orbiting the moon photographing 70 percent of the far side.
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Friendship 7- Project Mercury carries John H. Glenn Jr. and orbits the Earth three times
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First manned flight of Gemirn 3 carrying Virgil Grissom and John w Young three orbits around the earth
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Soviet Vennera 3 impacts the first spacecraft to reach another planet. But fails to return data.
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Us Lunar Orbetor entered the moons orbit take the first photo of the earth .
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Apollo 8- first Apollo to use the Saturn V rocket. Frank Borman, James A. Lovell Jr., and William A. Anders orbited the moon 10 times then returned safely
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Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin Jr. make the first manned soft landing on the moon
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Mariner 6 returns high-resolution images of Martin surface concentrating on the equatorial region
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Apollo 13- on their way to the moon, James A. Lovell Jr., John Swigert, and Fred W. Haise Jr., have an oxygen tank explosion. Moon landing is not accomplished but astronauts return safely
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A Saturn V rocket launches Skylab, the United States' first space station.
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Apollo 18 and Soyuz 19 doc and becomes the first international spacecraft rendezvous in space
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The second Space Shuttle, Challenger, was launched.
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The Space Shuttle challenger explodes shortly after lift off of mission S+S-5IL
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STS - 7 - Challenger mission launches with the first American women in space - Sally K Ride
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Optical orbital observatory
