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