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Robert Goddard launches 1st successful liquid fuel rocket
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Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1
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Sputnik 2 carried the first living being into space
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US launches Explorer 1
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Yuri Gagarin (1st man launched into space)
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First American Spacewalk
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First Woman in Space
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Alexei Leonov – 1st man to walk in space
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Neil Armstrong – 1st man to walk on the moon
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Apollo completes 1st manned mission for Apollo program
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Soviets were the first to successfully place a space station in orbit
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American space orbiter Mariner 9 surveys Mars
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NASA launches the first space station into space
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NASA lands the first spacecraft on Mars
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Voyager 2 deep space probes launched
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Voyager 1 deep space probes launched
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Sally Ride becomes first American woman in space
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Bruce McCandless performs man's first untethered spacewalk
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Space Shuttle Challenger Incident
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Mars Pathfinder landed on Mars and deployed the Sojourner rover
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International Space Station is launched into space
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First space tourist
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Space shuttle Columbia Incident
