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Sputnik one was the first artificial satelite to ever orbit the Earth.
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sputnik 2 carried Laika the dog into space and proved that lving beings could live in space.
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the Explorer 1 was the first us satellite to go into space.
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in 1958 the national aeronautics and space administration was founded.nasa,the program that put a man on the moon.
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Vostak 1 carried Yuri Gagarin to be the first man to be in space,also making a 108 minute orbit around the Earth.
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John Glenn was the first American to go into space.he piloted the Friendship7 around the Earth.
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During the preflight test something went wrong and the Apollo 1 blew up with the crew inside.
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The Apollo 8 was the first man piloted spacecraft to leave Earth's orbit,orbit the moon,and return home safley.
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The first men on the moon were in Apollo 11, Apollo 11 was also the first space ship to land on the moon.
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The sapce race ends with the Apollo-Soyuz mission.
