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First artificial satellite which was launched by USSR. -
The dog nicknamed Laika was the first animal in space and orbit to Earth. -
Explorer 1 was the first satellite launched by the US. -
President Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958 establishing NASA (National Aeronautics and Space Administration). -
Chimpanzee named Ham was the first animal which launched into space from the USA. -
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin from USSR was the first man in space. -
Pilot Alan Shepard was the first American and second man in space. -
John H. Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth. -
"We choose to go to the moon"
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The Gemini Project was the second space humanflight program. -
This project was to support techniques and things for which people were trying to land on the Moon. -
12 two-man launched into orbit around Earth. But during practice. -
Alexei Leonov was the first man who spent 12 minutes and 9 seconds outside the spacecraft. -
Edward White was the first American man who was out of spacecraft. -
Its original crew, Elliot See and Charles Bassett, were killed in a plane crash during a training activity. -
The mission never flew; a cabin fire during a launch rehearsal test at Cape Kennedy Air Force Station Launch Complex 34 killed all three crew members. -
Apollo 7 first crewed flight in NASA's Apollo program. -
Apollo 8 was the first crewed spacecraft to leave low Earth orbit and the first human spaceflight to reach the Moon.
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Apollo 9 was the third human spaceflight in NASA's Apollo program. -
Apollo 10 was a human spaceflight, the fourth crewed mission in the United States Apollo program, and the second (after Apollo 8) to orbit the Moon. -
Apollo 11 was the American spaceflight that first landed humans on the Moon.
