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American fighter aircraft
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The Havilland Comet becomes the world's first commercial jet airliner
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The R-7 Semiorka was the first intercontinental ballistic missile deployed by the Soviet Union.
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The USSR successfully launched Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite to get in to orbit.
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Sputnik 1
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The first animal to go into orbit was the dog Laika, who traveled aboard the Soviet ship Sputnik 2.
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The animal died during the mission due to overheating in the ship.
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The rocket exploded on the launch pad
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Pan American initiates its New York to London route with the Boeing 707
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Today's second busiest airport internationally, Beijing Capital International Airport, opens
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Pan American initiates its New York to London route with the Boeing 707
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The United States managed to launch its first satellite, Explorer 1.
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SCORE (Signal Communication by Orbiting Relay Equipment) was the first ever artificial communications satellite. It was sponsored by DARPA and launched by an Atlas missile from Cape Canaveral.
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the Soviet Moon program began with the launch of the Moon 1 probe, becoming the first probe to reach the Moon
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They are the first two living things that returned to earth alive.
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Yuri Gagarin traveled the Earth's orbit in 108 minutes.
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Soviet Yuri Gagarin became the first human to reach space, on an orbital flight aboard the Vostok 1 ship
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Alan Shepard was the first American to reach space, making a suborbital trajectory aboard the Mercury Redstone 3 rocket.
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Alan Shepard
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John Glenn traveled more than 130 thousand kilometers circling the moon 3 times
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the Soviet Union carried out the first mission with two humans in orbit, in Vostok 3 and Vostok 4 capsules, separated from each other by a few hundred kilometers.
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the US Mariner 2 was the first to fly over Venus successfully
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the Soviet Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman to reach space aboard the Vostok6.
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Valentina Tereshkova circled the earth 49 times over three days in space.
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President Kennedy is assassinated, and President Johnson assumes dearly.
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Alexei Leonov. The mission nearly ended in disaster when Leonov's spacesuit inflated in space.
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the first space encounter between the Gemini 6 and Gemini 7 ships, both Americans, took place.
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The modern-day FAA is established as part of the U.S. Department of Transportation
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Vladimir Komarov dies when the Soyuz 1 rocket parachute does not open properly. The capsule crashed near Orenburg in Russia's Ural Mountains
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American Neil Armstrong became the first person to walk on the lunar surface, having landed the day before.
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Neil Amstrong and Edwin Buzz Aldrin spend two hours on the Moon's surface collecting rocks and setting up observation gear
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Internationall company, Airbus, is created
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"Houston, we have a problem". An explosion caused by a failure in an oxygen tank did not let them reach the moon surface.
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The Venera 7 probe was the first to send data from the surface of Venus.
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Mars 2 and Mars 3lorated perching on the surface of Mars, the first abruptly and the second broke down 20 seconds after landing softly, so they failed to send data.
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Salyut. The tripulation died when it returned to Earth when air escaped from its Soyuz capsule.
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Pioneer 10 was the first probe to successfully cross the asteroid belt and reach planet Jupiter, the main target of its mission.
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The first female airline pilot, Emily Warner, flies as second officer for Frontier Airlines
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The first laboratory in space.
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During his superflight of Jupiter the Pioneer 11 probe obtained images of the Great Red Spot, made the first observations of the polar regions and determined the mass of Calisto.
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The Apollo Soyuz test project. American astronaut Thomas Stafford joins Russian Alexei Leonov.
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Concorde jet flies first supersonic passenger flight
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Airline Deregulation Act is signed into law, removing government control over fares, routes and market entry
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The Pioneer 11 arrived on Saturn, taking the first photographs at a short distance from the planet, where it was able to discover two new satellites and additional rings.
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The space shuttle Columbia was the first of NASA's space shuttles to serve missions outside Earth.
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McCandless tested a unit that allowed him to move up to 98 meters from the ship during the 90 minutes of his walk
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Sally Ride. Challenger spacecraft exploded. All seven astronauts on board died.
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The Soviet Union launches its Mir space station into orbit, which has seven docking sub-stations. This allows adding new modules, expanding its size and capacity.
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The Soviet Union launches Buran the first shuttle with automatic guidance.