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The first man made object to orbit the earth. launch by the USSR
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was carrying a dog. it was the first living thing in space launched by the USSR
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the first U.S. satellite in orbit, was launched into
space. It discovered the Earth’s radiation belt. -
satellite was launched into orbit. Although
communication with it was lost in 1964, it remains the oldest
human made satellite still in orbit. launched by US -
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first launch by NASA.
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launched by the USSR
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the first human made satellite to orbit the moon, was
launched by the USSR -
fell into a solar orbit, becoming the
first U.S. sun orbiter. -
hit the moon on September 13,
becoming the first human made object to hit the moon. -
the first successful weather satellite was launched by
the United States -
the first U.S. camera equipped
Corona spy satellite. -
carrying cosmonaut Yuri A. Gargarin, the first man in space. He orbits the Earth once
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carried Alan Shepard, the first U.S.
astronaut into space in a suborbital flight. -
Vostok 2 was launched by the USSR carrying Gherman Titov,
the first day long Soviet space flight. -
took off with John Glenn, Jr. the first
American in orbit, and orbited the Earth three times. -
Mercury Aurora 7 was launched with M. Scott Carpenter,
making three orbits. -
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the first successful planetary spacecraft flew
past Venus, and entered a solar orbit. -
carried Valentia Tereshkova, the first woman in space
and orbited the Earth 48 times. -
relayed the first close-range photographs of the
Moon. -
from Soviet Vostok 2 by Alexei A. Leonov. Duration was 12 minutes.
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Gemini 3 carrying Virgil I. Grissom and John W. Young. It made three orbits around the Earth. USA
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from Gemini 4. Duration was 22 minutes
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Returned the first close-range images of Mars.
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becoming the first craft to hit Venus on March 1, 1966.
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carrying Frank Borman and James A.Lovell, Jr., making 206 orbits around Earth and proving a trip to the Moon possible.
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American astronauts Walter Schirra, Jr. and Thomas Stafford in
Gemini 5 made the first space rendezvous with Gemini 7. -
was the first spacecraft to soft-land on the moon.
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was the first spacecraft to orbit the moon.
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was the first U.S. spacecraft to soft-land on the Moon.
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carrying Vladimir M. Komarov. On April 24 it crashed, killing Komarov, the first human space flight fatality.
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sent a descent capsule into the atmosphere of Venus,
returning data about its composition. -
the first spacecraft to orbit the Moon and return.
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Walter M. Schirra, Jr., Donn F. Eisele, and Walter Cunningham. It orbited the Earth once.
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Frank Borman, James A. Lovell, Jr., and William A. Anders, the first Apollo to use the Saturn V rocket, and the first staffed spacecraft to orbit the moon, making 10 orbits on its 6-day mission.
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Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin, Jr. made the first staffed soft
landing on the moon and the first moonwalk, using Apollo 11.