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1st artificial satellite;Sputnik;USSR
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1st mammal in orbit; Laika (Dog); USSR
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Year the Mercury Program began;US
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1st US Astronaut in space;Alan Shepard;US
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1st man in space;Yuri Gargarin;USSR
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Year the Gemini Program began;US
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1st US astronaut to orbit the Earth;John Glenn Jr;US
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1st women in space;Valentia Tershkov;USSR
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Year the Apollo program began;US
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1st man on the moon;Neil Armstrong;US;Apollo 11
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Voyager 1 launched;US(!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
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1st Space Shuttle Mission;Columbia;US(!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)