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Sputnik 1
Soviet union launched earths first satellite -
Laika Sputnik 2
Laika died during the mission, as the spacecraft was not designed to bring her back. (I'm sobbing right now) -
Explorer 1
explorer orbited 1,594 miles -
Creation of NASA
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Ham the Chimp
he successfully completed a series of trained tasks during his suborbital flight. -
Yuri Gagarin
duration of flight was 108 minutes -
Alan Shepard
flight was 15 minutes and it was a suborbital flight -
Friendship 7 - John H Glenn
orbited earth 3 times in approximately 5 hours -
JFK Speech
"We choose to go to the moon," -
Alexei Leonov
spent 12 minutes 9 seconds outside of the spacecraft -
Ed White
Used a handheld oxygen-jet gun to maneuver for the first three minutes, then twisted his body and pulled on a 25-foot umbilical cord to the capsule