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Launching of Sputnik 1
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Russian Send The First Animal Into Orbit (Laika, a dog) Sputnik 2
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Explorer 1, reached satellite orbit
Lead to the discovery of the Van Allen radiation belt
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Explorer 2 is launched but failed to orbit
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Sputnik 3 Is Launched
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John F. Kennedy is elected 35th president
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Yuri Gagarin orbits the Earth once, first man in space
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Alan Shepard is the first American man in space
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President Kennedy is assassinated.
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Venus 3 is launched.
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Luna 10 becomes the first satellite to orbit the Moon.
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Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, dies in a plane crash.
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Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr
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Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin become the first men to walk on the Moon.
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Apollo 17's Return From The Moon
American