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The First clear telescope photograph of the moon.
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The first animal in space.
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First pictures of Earth from 65 miles away.
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The Soviet Union launched the first Satellite, Sputnik, into space.
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The Soviet spacecraft Sputnik 2 was launched with a dog named Laika on board. Laika didn't survive the voyage.
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The Soviet craft Sputnik 5 was launched, carrying the dogs Strelka and Belka. They became the first living beings to survive a trip into space.
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Apollo 13 was launched.
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The Soviet Venera 7 became the first probe to land on Venus.
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The Moon Rover was driven on the moon for the first time.
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The U.S launched it's first space station, Sklab.
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An investigation panel found that super-heated air almost certainly seeped through the breach in space shuttle Columbia's left wing and possibly it's wheel compartment during the crafts fiery descent, resulting in the deaths of all several astronauts.
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NASA's Galileo mission ended a 14-year exploration of the Solar System's largest planet and it's moons with the spacecraft crashing by design into Jupiter at 108,000 mph.
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Space Shuttle Endeavor and a crew of seven blasted off with teacher- astronaut Barbara Morgan aboard as a crew member. Morgan was the first teacher in space since the Challenge disaster in 1986.
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The NASA space Probe Messenger skimmed 124 miles above Mercury.
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NASA's Dawn spacecraft became the first man made craft to orbit an asteroid.
