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Galileo first spots the moon through a telescope
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Robert H. Goddard launches the first ever liquid filled rockets.
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Hermann Oberth constructed and static tested a rocket.
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The USSR launched their first rocket.
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The Germans developed a rocket, the V-2.
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The German's had the first rocket to reach space.
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The United States launches their first rocket into space.
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The USA launched fruit flies into space using a captured German rocket.
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The first satellite put into orbit by the USSR.
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The USSR launched the first dog into orbit, Laika. Laika dieded 5 hours after being put into space.
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The first American Satellite into orbit, discovers the Van Allen radiation belt
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The first human-made object to orbit the Sun is launched
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The first manned spacemission and first person into orbit from USSR, Yuri Gagarin
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The United States had the first flyby of any planets which happened to be Venus.
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The first women, Valentina Tereshkova, from USSR was put into orbit
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The first photos from the Moon by the USSR
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The first probe to impact with another planet, Venus.
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The first people ever to stand on the Earth, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin.
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The USSR put up the first space station into orbit although it did not have any crew members inside.
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The first and only space station put into orbit by the United States.
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A shuttle was entering space when it started to disitergarate and killed everyone inside.
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The Soviets put up the first space staion which they called Mir although they didn't have humans in it at that time.
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The Hubble Telescope was launched into orbit which gave us pictures of the solar systems.
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The Mars pathfinder was launched which later landed on Mars and collected data from Mars.
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The cassini mission probes were launched which later made it to Saturn and studied the planet, its rings, and its moons.
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The first space station with involvement from multiple countries was launched.
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While Columbia was re-entering Earth's atmosphere there was a tile broken so the shuttle blew apart and everyone aboard died.
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The hyguens probe was launched by the European Space Agency and is studying Saturn's moon, Titian.
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The Deep Impact Probe was launched by NASA and was sent to collide with a comet to collect data.
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NASA is currently planning a manned trip to Mar which they are hoping will take place in the 2030'; they are developing a new space craft for this mission as well.
