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Russian Sputnik becomes the first satellite in space
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Space Age
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Two dogs were the first living beings to survive in space.
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Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space.
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Alexi Leonov became the first man to walk in space.
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Luna 9 became the first spacecraft to land on the moon.
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Zond 5 was the first to orbit the moon and return to Earth.
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Apollo 8 became the first spacecraft to orbit the moon.
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Neil and "Buzz" became the first men on the moon.
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The first spacecraft to return soil samples of the moon.
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Last men to walk on the moon.
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The U.S. launched its first space station, Skylab.
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Discovered water frost on the Martian surface.
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Columbia became the first Space Shuttle to be launched.
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First man to take an untethered space walk.
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The Space Shuttle Challenger exploded after liftoff.
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Want to send humans back to the moon by 2015
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Work on establishing a base to Mars and beyond started.