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World War 2
Germnay invaded Poland -
V2 Rockets
A ballistic missile -
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Cold War
was a continuing state of political and military tension between united states and soviet union. -
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Korean War
1st major armed clash between free and communist world. -
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Vietnam War
conflict of communist government [North Vietnam] wanting to take over South Vietnam as well. -
Sputnik
1st satellite to orbit earth. [Russia] -
Explorer
1st satellite from united states -
Mercury Program
to put a human in orbit. -
NASA
created after world war 2 -
Alan Shepard
1st American in space. -
Yuri Gargarin
1st person in space and to orbit earth. [Russia] -
Kennedy speech
Se4nding an American to the moon before the end of the decade. -
Gemini Program
two astronauts to orbit earth. -
John Glenn
1st American to orbit Earth. -
Mariner
1st spacecraft of Mariner program. -
Apollo Program
to land humans on moon and bring them back safely . -
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Present Mars Mission
Mars rover was to collect data. -
Apollo 1 fire
scheduled to be first manned mission until two astronauts died because a fire swept through command mocule. -
Detente
was a permanent relaxation in international affairs -
Apollo 11
Spaceflight that landed the first humans on the moon. -
Apollo 13
third to land on moon. -
Pioneer
first spacecraft to go to the asteriod belt and take close up pictures of saturn and jupiter. -
Apollo Soyuz
symbol of Detente that two superpowering were pursuing at the time. -
Viking
First spacecraft to land on Mars. -
Voyager
Study of outer solar system and interstellar space. -
Columbia
It was the first spacecraft system after Apollo Soyuz. -
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STS Program
Take an advantage of reusable spacecraft. -
Challenger
served as a space shuttle test. -
Hubble
a spacetelescope that carried out in to orbit with a spaceshuttle -
Fall of USSR
ended upon the creation of common wealth of independent states. -
ISS
artifical satellite in Earth's low orbit. -
Cassini
Study of saturn.
