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sputnik 1 is launched
Sputnik 1 was the first space satellite to be launched in to space
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Explorer1 first American satellite
the Explorer1 becomes the first american satellite to orbit earth -
NASA is formed
NASA (the national aronotics and space accosetion) replaces
NACA ( National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics)by order
of presadent Dwight D. Eisenhower -
pioneer 4 is launched towards the moon
Pioneer 4 is launched on a Earth-Moon trajectory It go's within 37,000 miles of the moon then orbits. -
luna 2 (soviet)
Luna 2 is launched and It impacts the Moon on September 13, becoming the first man-made object to do it. -
First man in space
yuri gagarin becoms the first man in space this is a huge acevment for
the sovits -
Period: to
The Space Race
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Jonh F Kennedy
href='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6z1DidldxUo' >[we decide to go to the moon] </a>
we dicide to go to the moon taking a big step to the moon
to get ahead in the space race our -
Cosmonaut Valentia Tereshkova
Cosmonaut Valentia Tereshkova is the first woman in space
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The first space walk
Alexei Leonov preforms the first space walk for 12 minutes outside of his Voskhod spacecraft . -
The USA wins the space race
Nel Armstrong and Buzz Aldren land on the moon and
america wins the space race that has lead to probes to pluto and
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Zond 5
Zond 5 was launched with an abundnce of animals including these two small turtices
