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The first spotting of the moon through a telescope by Galileo Galilei
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Robert H. Goddard launches first liquid fueled rockets
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First animals launched into space (fruit flies) by the U.S.
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First artificial satellite put into space that brings back signals to earth launched by the USSR
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First animal launched into orbit, dog named Laika launched by USSR
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Explorer 1 was the first satellite launched by the United States
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Cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov takes man's first space walk.
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First manned spacecraft to orbit moon, Apollo 8, comes within 70 miles of lunar surface.
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Man walks on the moon. Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin of Apollo XI spend 21 1/2 hours on the moon, 2 1/2 of those outside the capsule
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Skylab I, first U.S. orbiting laboratory, launched
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Sally Ride becomes first American woman in space.
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The Space Shuttle Discovery deployed the Hubble Space Telescope.
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Eileen Collins became the first female Shuttle Commander
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An American and Russian crew begins living aboard the international space station
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American Dennis Tito became the first tourist in space after paying the Russian space program $20,000,000
