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Space Race
The USSR and the United States battled in a race to be the first to explore space and get a man on the moon. -
First Animal In Orbit
A Russian Dog named Laika was the first animal to orbit Earth. -
First Picture Of Earth from Orbit
On this date NASA took the first picture of Earth from Orbit. -
First Man in Space
First human went in to space. He was named Yuri Gagarin and was from the USSR. -
First Woman in Space
The first woman to enter space was Valentina Tereshkova. A Russian who piloted a spacecraft called Vostok 6. -
First Man on the Moon
Neil Armstrong became the first human on the Moon. This also marked the first space launch from an object in space besides Earth. -
First Mars Rover
NASA succeeded in their first Mars Rover mission landing the Mars Pathfinder on Mars.