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The first animal ever let into space Intentionally were fruit flies launched in 1947 aboard a V2 rocket
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Sputnik, was the worlds first artificial satellite launched by the soviet Union.
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The U.S congress passes legislation to establish the National Aeronautics and Space administration, a civilian agency responsible for coordinating Americas activities in space.
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A little dog named laika put on a small satellite to orbit the earth.
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The first satellite launched by U.S was the Explorer a 18 pound cylinder shaped object launched 4 months after sputnik
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Aboard spacecraft vostok 1, the soviet cosmonaut Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin becomes the first human being to travel in space.
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Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin, was a soviet air force pilot who became the first to journey into space in his capsule vostik 1.
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Alan Shepard was the first American sent to space aboard the freedom 7 spacecraft.
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John glenn became the first american to orbit the earth 3 times in the friendship 7 space capsule
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President at the time at John F Kennedy, gave a speech Addressing the nations space efforts as well as stating there commitment to the moon.
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Alexei leonov was the first person to perform an EVA and spent 12 minutes and 9 seconds outside of his spacecraft the voskhod 2
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Was the first crewed mission of the Apollo program 3 men issued to go Gus grissom, Ed white and Roger Chaffee, who all died in a tragic fire accident while testing
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Astronauts, Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong performed the first EVA on the Moons surface
