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USSR launches Sputnik 1.
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Sputnik 3 is launched
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Luna 1 is launched by the USSR. It is the first man made object to orbit the Sun.
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John F. Kennedy is elected the 35th President of the United States.
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Yuri Gagarin orbits the Earth once and becomes the first man in space.
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John Glenn orbits the Earth three times.
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President Kennedy is assassinated.
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Astronaut Theodore Freeman dies in a plane crash.
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Mariner 4 returns close ranger images of Mars.
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Luna 10 becomes the first satellite to orbit the Moon.
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Astronaut Clifton Williams is killed in a plane crash.
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The crew of Apollo 7 begin a 10 day mission to study the new spacecraft.
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Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin become the first men to walk on the Moon while crewmate Michael Collins orbits around the Moon alone.