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First applications satellite sent to space
The United states sends the first ever applications satellite into space -
First recovery from space orbit
The United States' discoverer 13 brings back the first payload from space -
first Human to orbit earth
Yury Gagarin of the USSR was the first human to orbit earth -
first data returned from another planet
The United States' Mariner 2 gets data from venus for the first time -
first woman in space
The USSR sends Valentina Treshkova to space -
first satellite to operate in geostationary orbit
The United States sends Syncom 2 as the first satellite to operate in orbit -
First space walk
The USSR sends Aleksey Leonov on Voskhod 2 for the first walk in space -
First space craft pictures of mars
the united states flew Mariner 4 into space to capture pictures of mars -
first spacecraft to soft-land on the Moon
USSR's Luna 9 is the first shuttle to land without much damage on the moon -
first death during a space mission
Vladimir Komarov on Soyuz 1 from the USSR was the first to pass away during a space mission