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The Soviets launched the satellite Sputnik 1 into orbit and it was the size of a beach ball.
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The Soviet Union Launched Sputnik 2 in Nov,3.1957,was the first to carry a living animal, a dog named Laika went in Sutnik 2. This day is important because Soviet union lauched a living animal.
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The United States launched their own satellite, Explorer 1, into orbit.. This day is important because the United States launched their first satellite into orbit to go to the moon
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The United States Government angency is called the National Aeronautics and Space Administration(NASA). This day was important because the United States were ahead of the Soviet Union in the race in space to have rockets land on the moon
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Yuri Gagarin was the first human to be launched into orbit and fly one orbit around the Earth in the Vostok 1
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Less than a month after the Soviets launched the first human in space, Alan Shepard became the first American in space,But he did not orbit Earth, His spacecraft,Freedom 7 was part of the Mercury space program
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john F. Kennedy launched a program called "The Apollo Program" of space exploration and scientific reseach. This day was important because the American effort to land astronauts on the moon and return them to Earth safely and this was called the Apollo Program
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John Glenn orbited the the Eath in the Friendship 7,three times the went around the earth in the tiny capsule rocket
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Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin circled the moon aboard Apollo 11. Once in orbit they both entered a tiny spacecraft called the Eagle. when the spacecraft loward to a flat area on the moon's suface,It's called the Sea of Tranquility, This day is important because they were the first astronauts to land on the moon.
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They ended the war between them and worked together. This day is important because they finally stopped and sent a spacecraft into space.