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Sputnik 1
Humanity's First Satellite -
Explorer 1
the first satellite of the United States, launched as part of its participation in the International Geophysical Year. -
Ham the Astrochimp
was a chimpanzee and the first hominid launched into space. -
Yuri Gagarin
Became First man in Space To Orbit around earth once -
Alan Shepard
an American astronaut, naval aviator, test pilot, and businessman. In 1961 he became the first American to travel into space. -
John Glenn
the first American to orbit the Earth during those tentative, challenging, daring days when humans were just beginning to venture beyond the atmosphere that had nurtured them since the species began. -
Gemini Program
NASA's second human spaceflight program. Conducted between projects Mercury and Apollo, -
Surveyor 1
he first lunar soft-lander in the unmanned Surveyor program of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. -
Apollo 1
initially designated AS-204, was the first manned mission of the United States Apollo program, which had as its ultimate goal a manned lunar landing. -
Apollo 8
the second manned spaceflight mission in the United States Apollo space program, -
Apollo 11
the spaceflight that landed the first two humans on the Moon. Mission commander Neil Armstrong and pilot Buzz Aldrin, both American
