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Space Exploration

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  • First Animal in Space

    First Animal in Space

    Fruit flies were sent by the US aboard the captured German V-2 rockets to study radiaton exposure at high altitudes.

  • First Country in Space

    The USSR successfully sent the world's first artificial satellite to space. Sputnik I was about the size of a beach ball.
  • First animal to orbit in space

    First animal to orbit in space

    Laika, the little stray dog, was the first animal to orbit Earth, sent by the USSR.
  • First Man in Space

    First Man in Space

    Russian Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin was the first human in space in the Vostok 1 spacecraft.
  • Mercury Missions

    Mercury Missions

    First Human space flight program being the nation's first program for astronauts. There were 6 flights with 6 astronauts flown.
  • Liberty Bell 7

    Liberty Bell 7

    Astronaut Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom manned the mission.

  • Friendship 7

    John Glenn was launched from Cape Canaveral. He was the first American to orbit the Earth.
  • Gemini 7

    Gemini 7

    Carried astronauts Frank Borman and Jim Lovell. Mission lasted 14 days.
  • Apollo 11

    Apollo 11

    First mission to land on the moon on the Saturn V rocket with Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin.

  • Apollo 13

    A successful failure. Astronauts were saved before they died in space, yet, never reached the moon.