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sputnick 1
ussr launches sputnick 1 and sputnick 1 was the first satellite launched into space
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sputnick 2
The soviets wanted to see if any animals could live in space and laika was the first animal in space
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explorer 2
explorer 2 launched but fails to reach orbit
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pioneer 1
pioneer 1 launched to a height of 70700 miles
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vostok 1
Yuri Gagarin orbits earth once and becomes first human in space and he was working for the ussr
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mercury 7
Alan Shepard becomes first american in space
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vostok 2
Gherman Titov spends a day in space aboard vostok 2 and titov was the second human to orbit earth
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mercury atlas 6
John Glen becomes first american to orbit earth three times
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vostok 6
Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova becomes first woman in space
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ranger 7
Ranger 7 transmits first close range images of the moon
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voskhod 2
Alexei Leonov spends 12 minutes outside his voskhod spacecraft performing the first moonwalk
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