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October 4, 1957- is when the Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik the first ever satellite into space. -
On November 3, 1957 the first animal to make an orbital spaceflight around the Earth was the dog Laika aboard the Soviet spacecraft Sputnik 2. -
On January 31, 1958 the Explorer 1 became the first successfully launched satellite by the United States. -
On July 16 and President Eisenhower signed it into law on July 29, 1958. The bill established eight objectives for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. -
On April 12, 1961, the era of human spaceflight began when the Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human to orbit the Earth in his Vostock I spacecraft. -
On May 5th, 1961, astronaut Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr. became the first American in space aboard the Freedom 7 Space capsule on a flight that lasted 15 minutes and reached a height of 116 miles into the atmosphere. -
On June 16, 1963, at the age of 26, Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman to fly in space. -
The cosmonauts were able to leave the spacecraft because EVA backpacks. -
On July 20,1969 America made history when Neil Armstrong was the first ever man to walk on the moon. -
The crew had to use different resources on board to get back to earth.
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The Apollo 14 mission was the third manned lunar landing mission. Its objective was to perform detailed scientific lunar exploration. -
Skylab was America's first ever space station and it was used study micro gravity. -
On July 17, 1975 the space race against Russia and U.S. came to an end. Soviet cosmonauts and American astronauts shake hands in orbit as the two nations' spacecraft dock during the Apollo-Soyuz mission. -
Sally Ride was the first American Female in space. -
On August 12, 1978 the first ever space shuttle was tested. -
On April 12, 1981 Nasa Launched the Columbia with the help of booster rockets. -
On April 4, 1983 NASA released another space shuttle called The Challenger. -
On August 30, 1984, the Space Shuttle discovery made its first launch into space, They suscessfully carried 3 communications
satellites into space. -
On October 3, 1985 NASA launched their final space shuttle Atlantis. -
On January 28, 1986 launched the Challenger and 73 seconds later it blew up and the whole crew was dead. -
The Hubble Space Telescope is a space telescope that was launched into low Earth orbit in 1990. -
In 1992 NASA launched a new space shuttle called Endeavour it was a replacecment for The Challenger that blew up. -
The Space Shuttle Columbia disaster was a fatal incident in the United States space program that occurred on February 1, 2003, when the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated as it reentered the atmosphere, killing all seven crew members.
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The International Space Station was finshed in 2011 and This is where scientists stay for week at a time doing experiments in outer space.