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The USSR puts the first Sputnik into orbit
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The USSR launches Sputnik II with the dog Laika on board
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The US launches the first artificial satellite, Explorer 1
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President Dwight Eisenhower signs the creation of NASA
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Yuri Gagarin (USSR) aboard Vostok 1, performs the first manned space flight
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John H. Glenn, primer estadounidense que orbita la Tierra, a bordo del Friendship 7.
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Russian cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, first woman to travel into space
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Russian cosmonaut Alexei Leonov performs the first spacewalk after traveling in the Vostok 2 capsule.
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Apollo 11, manned by Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin Aldrin (USA), lands on the Moon, and Armstrong is the first to set foot on the lunar surface
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The USSR places Salyut-1, the first space station, into orbit.
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La URSS lanza la estación Salyut 6, que se desintegró en julio de 1982.
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First launch of the European Ariane rocket
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The Challenger explodes at takeoff and its seven crew members die
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The USSR puts the MIR space station into orbit, which remained in orbit until 2001
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Hubble telescope is placed in orbit
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Japan, the US and England launched the Yohkoh probe bound for the Sun
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Two Russian astronauts, Sergei Krikaliov and Yuri Guidzenko, and one American, William Shepard, are the first inhabitants of the International Space Station
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Dennis Tito (USA), the first space tourist
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China launches the first Shenzhou manned spacecraft
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Opportunity (NASA) sets foot on Mars
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