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Tiros 1, the first successful weather satellite, is launched by the United States. It lived for about 78 days and it died.
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The U.S. launches Discoverer XIV, and it was the first satellite with a camera!!!!!!!!
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On the 12 of April 1961 a man named Yuri Gagarin was launched into space as the first man into space. He was born in Russia and orbited Earth for 108 minutes.
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The firts American in space was Alan B. Shepard. He was born on Nov 18, 1923 and died July 21, 1998. He also recieved a science degree in the U.S. naval academy. He was launched in a capsule that was named freedom 7.
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Since Russia and the U.S. started the race, The European space research organization has been jealous and wanted to compete.
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President Kennedy gave a speech at Rice University to tell people about his interest for space research.
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On the 16th of June Valentina Tereshkova went into space on a Russian spacecraft called The Vostok 6.
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This is a major loss in the Space Race because he put everything into putting a man on the moon by the end of the decade.
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Space race was a popular movie series with only four movies about exploration and space technology between Russia,(U.S.S.R) and America.(U.S.)
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Ranger 7 was the very first satellite made by the U.S. that could take up-close images of the moon.
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Alexy Leonov is the first person outside in space. He was supposed to go on the Vostok 11,but instead he went on the Voskhod 2.
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Ed White was the first American to do a complete space walk. He was out of Gemini 4 in space for six minutes.
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The first unmanned moon landing was made by Russia in the Luna 9.
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Luna 10 orbited the moon and was the first to do it.
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Apollo 1 was launched in the air, but seconds after there was a fire and the module they were in, caught on fire and later exploded, killing the crew.
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Vladimir Kamarov was the man who manned the shuttle, Soyuz 1, but the shuttle had technical difficulties and crashed. Vladimir Kamarov was dead, making this the first fatal space mission.
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Zond 5, a Russian space craft is the first to go to The Moon orbit it, come back and land safely.
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On December 21, Frank Borman, James Lovell, and William Anders made the very first manned space flight around the moon on Apollo 8.
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The first trip to The Moon was made by the U.S. Neil Armstrong along with Micheal Collins and "Buzz" Aldrin Jr. was the crew of the famous Apollo 11.
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The U.S. was the first to pick a location and be able to land on the exact spot. Pete Conrad and Alan Bean were the astronauts who performed the task.
