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USSER Launched Spuntik 1
Spuntik 1 spred the U.S. to launch its own staillite. This began the compation betwwen the USSR to have domimore in space. -
First Human in Space
the 27-year-old test pilot and industrial technishion also the first man to oribt the planet. He was awarded the Order of Lenin and given the title of
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Cuban Missile Crisis
Leaders of the soviet union engaged in a tence. Many people feared the world was on the brink of nuclear war. -
Manned Orbiting Laboratory
The project represented the next step toward wider space exploration. The space station known as Skylab was designed as an reserch on scintfic matters. -
First Moon Walk
The american effort to send astronauts to the moon has its orgains in a famouse appeal president J.F.K made to a special joint session of Congress on May 25, 1961. Engineers, NASA conducted the first unamed apollo mission -
The Soviet Union launches Luna 16
Luna 16 was the first automated vehicle to land on the Moon and return a sample of material to Earth. It was not, howeve, the first retrieval of lunar soil sample though. -
Mariner 9 becomes the first spacecraft to orbit Mars
NASA's Viking Project found a place in history when it Mariner 9 arrived at Mars in 1971 and changed our perceptions of the Red Planet. -
The U.S. Viking 1 lands on Mars
NASA's Viking Project found a place in history when it became the first us mission to land a spacecraft safly on the surface of mars. Two identical spacecraft, each consisting of a lander and an orbiter, were built. -
The first GPS satellite
GPS space segment consists of a constellation of satellites transmitting radio signals to users. The United States is committed to maintaining the availability of at least 24 operational GPS satellites. -
The first American space station
The launch of Skylab, America's first space station, on board a modified Saturn V rocket from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Fla. Skylab provided a detailed study of our planet from the incomparable vantage of orbit
