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USSR launches Sputnik
First Man made object to orbit the earth -
USSR Launches first dog into space
Dog dies a few hours later from overheating and panic -
USA launches first satilite
Satilite called explorer -
USA launches Vangaurd Satilite
Continues to transmit data for 3 years after launch -
NASA is created
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration -
First Monkey to survive in space
space flight returned to Earth after being launched in Jupiter AM-18 missile from Cape Canaveral in Florida -
Russian Yuri Gagarin orbits the Earth once
and becomes the first man in space -
Alan Shepard becomes the first American in space
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President John F Kennedy challenges nation to put a man on the Moon by the end of the decade
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American John Glenn orbits the Earth three times
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American Walter Schirra orbits the Earth six times
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Cosmonaut Valentia Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space
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Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov performs the first spacewalk, spending 12 minutes outside the Voskhod spacecraft
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Ed White performs America’s firsts spacewalk
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USSR’s Luna 9 becomes the first spacecraft to perform a soft landing on the Moon
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America’s Surveyor 1 soft-lands on the Moon
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Three US astronauts, Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger Chafee, are killed when a fire ignites in their Apollo 1 capsule while performing a test on the launch pad
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Apollo 11 blasts off from Cape Kennedy, Florida, with Neil Armstrong, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin and Lt Col Michael Collins on board.
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Apollo 8 begins first manned journey to the Moon. Astronauts Frank Borman, James Lovell and Williams Anders make a Christmas Eve broadcast that is shown live on television around the world.
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Armstrong and Aldrin become the first men to walk on the moon while Collins remains in lunar orbit in the command and service module.
