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soviet unions launch sputnik
1st artificial earth satellite -
Luna 2 probe reaches the moon
Sept 14, Luna 2 crashed onto the surface of the moon becoming the first man made object to reach it -
First human orbits Earth (Yuri Gagarin)
1st to journey into outer space -
First woman in space (Valentina Tereshkova)
selected from more then four hundred applicants and five finalists to pilot Vostok 6 -
Venera 7 lands on venus
first space craft to land on another planet and first to transmit data from there back to earth -
First manned space station; Mars 3 drops capsule on Mars
space station that belonged to the soviets