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Robert Goddard
Robert Goddard "The Father of Modern Rocketry" invented the liquid fuel rocket -
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Robert Goddard
In 1926, Robert Goddard "Father of Modern Rocketry" invented the liquid fuel rocket -
Sputnik 1
The space age began on October 4, 1957,when the Soviet Union launched Spunik 1, the first artifical object to orbit the earth -
Soviet "cosmonaut"
Yuri Gagarin became the first person to travel in space when he made a single orbit around yhe earth in his Vostok 1 spacececraft -
John Glenn
the first American to orbit the earth -
Valentina Tereshkova
the pilot Vostok 6, became the first woman to fly in space -
Neil Armstrong
became the first human being to set foot on another world -
Salyut 1
was used only briefly, five more Salyut space stations were successfully operated -
Skylab
The United States launched its first space station -
The Space Shuttle
the United States launched the space shuttle Columbia, a new type of spacecraft -
Yang Liwei
orbited the earth 14 times in his Shenzhou 5 spacecraft
