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ussr launches sputnik
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Laika the first living thing in space
Laika the first living thing sent into space {dog}.Russians could not figure out a way to get the pup backit is unknown how long she lived it could be a few hours or even a few days.
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first american satilitte to reach orbit disvory of radiation belt
Explorer 1 the first american satilite to reach space this aldo lead to the discovory of a radiation belt.
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first human to be launched into space
Yugi Gagarin was the first person in space.The first cooapritve spave flight sent up on vostok 1.
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first person to orbit earth
Jhon Glenn takes off into space making this flight historic as he orbits the earth and returns home saftly.
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first women in space
The ussa launch female asstronaut valentina Tereshkova into spave on vostok 6.She spent three days in space alone.
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first space walk
cosmonaut alexie leonov took the first spacw walk he was teathered and stayed out there for 10 min.
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austronaut killed by atomic accident
Edward givens an austronaut was killed in and automic accident.
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MIssion to study spacecraft
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first precision landing in space
Pere Cornad and alan Bean do the first precion luna landing landing 600 FT from another probe that arrived 2 years earlier.
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mir falls back to earth
Mir the Soviet space station falls to earth eding a 15 year aera.russia panned to crash the ship into the Pacific Ocean.
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