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The first animals were launched into space. Fruit flies were used to study the effects of space travel on animals.
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Albert 2, was the first monkey in space. He was a Rhesus monkey, a type of monkey that originally comes from Asia.
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The U.S.S.R. launched Sputnik 1, the first artificial satillite to orbit the world.
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Laika was the first animal ever sent to space, rode in orbit Sputnik 2.
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John Glenn became the first american to orbit the Earth, completing three orbits.
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Cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov takes man's first space walk.
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NASAS Mariner 4 conducts the first Mars flyby, because observers of Mars thought it may have civilization.
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Neil Armstrong became the first human to walk on the moon, from Apollo 11 lunar module
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Russia's salyut-1 the worlds first space station was launched from an unmanned rocket.
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Three cosmonauts, Georgy Dobrovolsky, Vladislav olkov, and Viktor Patsayev, die during re-entry of their Soyuz 2 spacecraft. A government commission disclosed that the three died 30 minutes before landing because a faulty valve depressurized the spacecraft.
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A U.S rover named Sojourner explored the surface/ geography of Mars.
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America's voyagers 1 and 2 were launched on Sptember 5th, and August 20th. These deep space probs are launched to study the outer solar system.
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The hubble space telescope was deployed in Earth's orbit by space shuttle discovery.
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The international space station was established
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An American and Russian crew begins living aboard the international space station.
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The U.S messenger mission tro mercury, launched in 2004, begins its year long orbit around Mercury.
