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Albert went into space, 14th June, 1949
Albert II, was the first monkey in space. He was a Rhesus monkey, a type of monkey that originally comes from Asia.Albert went into space on 14th June, 1949 in a specially adapted American V2 rocket, that flew to a height of 83 miles from earth. -
First man in space
On 12th April 1961, Russian Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space. Gagarin's spacecraft, Vostok 1, completed one orbit of the earth, and landed about two hours after launch. -
Second landing on moon
It was called Surveyor 1, and it made the second soft landing on the Moon on 30th May 1966, a few months after Russian probe Luna 9 landed successfully. -
Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were the first people to be on the monn
Their spaceship, Apollo 11 worked perfectly, flying them 250,000 miles to the moon, and bringing them all the way back safely to earth. -
The space shuttle was invented
The Space Shuttle, was designed to be reused for up to 100 visits to space, in an attempt to make space travel less expensive. -
The space shuttle exploded
On January 28th 1986, tragedy struck. Space Shuttle Challenger exploded shortly after launch, because of a fuel system failure. All seven astronauts on board were killed, and all shuttles were grounded for nearly three years.
