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first satellite from USSR
sputnik -
First animal in space by USSR
A dog named Laika -
First satellite in space by USA
Explorer 1 -
creation of NASA
National Aeronautics and space Act -
First man in space by USSR
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin -
First animal in space by USA
Ham the chimp -
JFK's speech and commitment to getting to the moon
We choose to go to the Moon", officially titled the Address at Rice University on the Nation's Space Effort -
First man in space by USA
Neil Armstrong