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Sputnik launched by ussr
1st artificial satelite put in space by the ussr. -
the soviets launched the first human in space
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Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee are killed when a fire ignites in their Apollo 1 capsule while performing a test on the launch pad
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Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, dies in a plane crash
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3 astronauts cicled the moon on apollo 11