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Laika was the first living thing sent into space. She was sent by Russia three years before the Sputnik.
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sputnik 1 was the first satellite to enter space
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(Sputnik 1) The first man-made object yo orbit the earth was launched by the U.S.S.R
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The first woma in space was a lady by the name of Valentina Tereshkova. Valentina flew in the spacecraft Vostok 6 for three days. The flight in 1963 was her only flight. She later toured the world promoting Soviet science.
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On July 20th, 1969, Apollo 11 carried astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins to the moon. Armstrong and Aldrin became the first men to walk on lunar soil that day, and Armstrong spoke the most famous words in space history as he set foot on the moon's Sea of Tranquility: "That's one small step for man. One giant leap for mankind." The excursion took roughly eight days and six hours, after which the crew splashed down in the Pacific Ocean, to be recovered by the USS Hornet.
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On the Apollo 13 mission, an oxygen tank exploded after two days it was lauched. An emergancy resuce was made and all of the crew members survived as they landed safely back to Earth.
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Voyager 1 landed in Saturn
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April 12th, 1981, was the date of the first Shuttle mission. This flight, known as STS-1, saw John W. Young and Robert L. Crippen test the capabilities of the shuttle Columbia in a manned space flight. The mission lasted roughly two days and six hours, and made history as the first time a shuttle had flown above the atmosphere. -PhilipT Works cited:http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/shuttlemissions/archives/sts-1.html
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The Challenger was the first space shuttle to carry eight crew members.
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the Voyager 2 flies past Uranus.
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On January 28 of 1986, there was a failed launch that lasted 73 seconds in the air.
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Space shuttle Challenger is destroyed in an accident.
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this was the first rover to land on mars and look for plant and fossil life
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On the Columbia's re-entry into Earth it was destroyed, killing all of it's crew members. The crew consisted of Rick Husband as the Commander, William McCool as the pilot, Michael Anderson as the payload commander, Ilan Ramon as the payload specialist, and Kalpana Chawla, David Brown and Laurel Clark as the mission specialists. The accident occurred due to the left wing being damaged by a piece of foam debris, which let hot gases to get into the wing, destroying it, thus causing the explosion.
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the Cassini–Huygens space probe performed the SOI (Saturn Orbit Insertion) and entered orbit around saturn. they have allready studied saturn obsessively before. in total it discovered 8 new satalights.
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After a journey of 174 days, the Deep Impact space probe fulfills its mission by slamming into a comet known as Tempel 1. The probe impacts the comet at a speed of 10.3 kilometers (6.3 miles) per second. The probe's mothership took pictures and recoreded data that it sent back to earth
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The first spacecraft to complete a round-trip journey to an asteroid was a Japanese probe called Hayabusa. During its journey, Hayabusa landed twice on the asteroid, Itokawa, and collected samples. The picture to the left was taken while the probe was reentering Earth’s orbit over Australia.
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The first robotic astronaut was launched in a Space Shuttle into space to be delieved into the International Space Station!
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