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The USSR launches ther first artificial satelite called spitnuk 1.
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explorer 1 is the first American satelite to reach space and it lead to the study of the Van allen radiation belt
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The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is formed, it replaces the National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics (NACA).
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Yuri Gagarin was the first man in space with a 108 minute orbit around the earth.
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Ranger 7 was active for 18 minutes and took over 4,000 pictures of the moon close up, a resolution 1,000 times greater than any earth bound telescope
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The first man made object has impaccted venus
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Luna 9 was the first spacecraft to achieve a lunar soft landing and to transmit photographic data from the Moon's surface to Earth
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the spacecraft entered the Venusian atmosphere and released two thermometers, Signals were returned by the spacecraft
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Neil armstrong and Edwin Aldrin are the first men to walk the moon
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Pete Conrad and Alan Bean perform the first precision lunar landing, touching down just 600 feet from the Surveyor 3 probe that arrived two years earlier.
