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For the first time ever a man named Galilao Galilei has spotted the moon through a telescope he had created.
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A man named Robert H. Goddard had launched the first liquid fueled rocket into the air. The rocket had reached hights of 1.6 miles in the air and had reached speeds of 550 mph.
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The first animals that ever entered space, that we know of were, fruit flys sent up, into space by the USA in a captured Nazi V2 rocket.
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The first artificial satellite was launched into space to bring signals back to earth . The satellite was launched by the USSR.
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A dog named Laika was launched into orbit by the USSR, in a space craft called the Sputnic 2, however she did not return alive becuase of a malfunction of the suit. RIP Laika.
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This was one of the biggest and most successful event throughout history. A man named Yuri Gagarin, a Russian Soviet Pilot was launched into orbit in a space craft called the Vostok 1.
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Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova was a retired Russian cosmonaut and politician. She is the first woman to have flown in space. She was launched in the Vostok 6
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First sighting of mars and flyby by U.S. NASA
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First human on moon by the U.S. (Apollo 11) successful. The three men who flew in the lunar module eagle were Neil Armstrong and pilot Buzz Aldrin.
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First soft landing on Mars and first signals from the surface.
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First spacecraft beyond the orbit of Neptune by U.S. NASA
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First photograph of the whole solar system by U.S. NASA
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First orbit of an asteroid by U.S. NASA
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First landing on an asteroid by U.S. NASA
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Kepler Mission launched first space telescope designated for research of Earth's expoplanets by USA
