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The first artificial earth satellite to be launched into space. -
The first to carry an animal into orbit, a Soviet space dog named Laika. The dog died from panicking and overheating. -
Carrying the dogs Strelka and Belka Sputnik 5 was launched. They became the first living beings to survive going into space. -
Yuri Gagarin became the first person to fly into space and orbit the earth. -
Alan Shepard Jr. became the first American in space. -
President John F. Kennedy challenges the country to put a man on the moon by the end of the decade. -
She became the first woman to travel to space. -
Russian Cosmonaut Alexei Arkhipovich Leonov became the first human ever to walk in space. Leonov exited the spacecraft for 12 minutes and 9 seconds. -
Transmitted the first ever pictures of mars. -
The first aircraft to land on the moon. -
On the mission Apollo 11 we put Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the moon for the first moon walk. -
First crew of Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders orbited the moon. -
The first rover on the moon named Lunokhod 1. -
Became the second space shuttle to be launched. -
The biggest, best equipped robot ever sent to explore another planet. (Mars)