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Launching of Sputnik 1 (USSR)
It was the first artifical satelite that was sent to space. It was sent to space by the Soviet Union. It helped to identify the atmospheric layer's density, and sent in data on a radio signal. -
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Sputnik 2 (USSR)
Sputnik 2 was sent to outer space and had a dog. She was the first animal to orbit the world. Laika had died a few hours later from lift off but not from suffocation. She died from overheating and stress. -
Weather Satellite (US)
It is used to monitor the climate and weather of the Earth. There are two types of orbiting it can use. One is polar orbiting were it see's the same swath of the Earth every 12 years. Geostationary, where it stays at the same spot of the Earth by orbiting over the equator and going the same speed as the Earth orbits. -
Yuri Gagarin (USSR)
He was the first man to go to space. He became famous and won many medals and honors, also was names Hero of the Sovient Union. He died in 1968 after a jet he was piloting crashed. -
First Communication Satellite (US)
It rotates 45 degrees angle above the equator, it completes an orbit every 2 hours and 37 minutes. It was 100-foot aluminized PET film ballon. -
Orbital rendezvous (USA)
It is between two space craft, is a orbital rendezvous. The two space craft have to have the same speed, that allows them to remain a constant distance. Some space craft don't have a docking for the two space craft to become one. -
Venus (USSR)
As Vega 1 flew by Venus it launched a 2.4 meter probe into the atmosphere. The probe created a big ballon immediately entering the atmosphere. The ballon spread 9.000 kilometers in 47 hours before bursting. -
First Man on the Moon (US)
Neil Armstrong was the first man to step foot on the moon. Armstrong and his partner Buzz Aldrin spent 2.5 hours on the moon while Michael Collins remained in orbit with the Command Module. Neil Armstrong was awarded with a Congressional Space Medal of Honor. -
Space Station (USSR)
Its designed to stay in space for a long period of time. It has the ability for other spacecrafts to dock it. -
Mars (USSR)
The USSR had first impact into Mars. -
Sun (US)
First human made object sent on escape trajectory away from the Sun. -
Returning of Apollo 17 (US)
This was the 11th and last mission of the American Apollo Space Program. They launched at 13:33 A.M, with crew members: Commander Eugene Cernan, Command Module Pilot Ronald Evans and Lunar Module Pilot Harrison Schmitt. It was the 6th Apollo landing on the first night of launch for the U.S human spaceflight.
