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Fruit flies
Fruit flies were used to study the effects of space travel on animals, and were chosen because they are more similar to humans than you might imagine! -
Rhesus monkey
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. -
The race begins
Russians placed the first successful satellite into orbit. It was called Sputnik I. The Russians had taken the lead in the Space Race. -
Sputnik
Sputnik was the first satellite in orbit around the earth. Today there are over 500 working satellites in space. -
Yuri Gagarin
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. -
Surveyor 1
John F. Kennedy promised the world that the US would land men on the moon before 1970. Before risking people's lives, NASA sent a robot spaceship, to make sure they could land safely. It was called Surveyor 1. -
Neil armstong
Neil Armstrong, and then Buzz Aldrin took "one small step" and became the first men on the moon. The first words said on the moon were "the Eagle has landed". -
Apollo
Apollo 13 suffered an explosion caused by a wiring fault. Using only whatever was on board, NASA scientists and the astronauts on board improvised repairs to bring the crippled spaceship home. -
space shuttle
Until 12th April 1981 all spacecraft were designed to be used only once. The Space Shuttle, was designed to be reused for up to 100 visits to space, in an attempt to make space travel less expensive. With five hugely powerful rocket motors, it can fly at more than 17,000 miles per hour. Six were been built, but none fly any more - NASA retired the last of the fleet in 2011. -
Space shuttle challenger
Space Shuttle Challenger exploded shortly after launch, because of a fuel system failure. -
International Space Station (ISS)
n 2000 the first permanent crew moved into the International Space Station (ISS), where crews of astronauts have been living ever since. -
Dennis tito
Dennis Tito became the first space tourist when he paid around 20 million dollars for a ride in a Russian Soyuz spacecraft. -
European Space Agency's Rosetta
Launched in 2004, it took European Space Agency's Rosetta probe ten years to reach Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko. -
The space plane
SpaceShipOne made the first ever privately funded manned space flight. This space plane was built by a private aviation firm to win the 10 million dollar Ansari X Prize. -
The U.S. National Space Policy
U.S. National Space Policy of 2010 set out goals for space exploration; to send humans to an asteroid by 2025 and to the planet Mars in the 2030s. -
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SpaceX
As NASA began to plan retirement for the Space Shuttle, private companies began work on spacecraft to replace it. One of these companies, SpaceX, became the first to launch a privately funded liquid-fueled rocket into Orbit, the Falcon 1.
