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Sputnik 1
Sputnik 1 was successfully launched and entered earths orbit.thus began the space age. the successful launch shocked the world, giving the former soviet union the distinction of putting the first human made object into space.
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Explorer 1
Following the launch of the soviet union's sputnik 1. the U.S. Army Ballistic Missile Agency was directed to launch a satellite using C rocket.
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Luna 1
Luna 1 was the first spacecraft to reach the moon. There were no propulsion systems on the Luna 1 spacecraft. Because of its high velocity its package of various metallic emblems with the soviet coat of arms. and was concluded that Luna 1 was intended to impact the moon.
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Ham The Astrochimp
The chimp went into space and came back alive.
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Yuri Gagarin
Was the first human to make it into space. His Vostok 1 spacecraft made one orbit around earth. He was up there for 108 minutes.
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Alan Shepard
He was the first American in space. He flew on a spacecraft called Mercury but he named it Freedom 7. Shepard did not orbit the earth he flew 116 miles high. Soon After he went on his second flight to the moon with Edger Mitchell and became the first the be on the moon.
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John Glenn
Glenn flew on the STS-95 Discovery shuttle and was a 9 day mission. on those 9 days the crew supported research payloads including deployment of the Spartan solar observing spacecraft.
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Spacewalk
Spacewalk is when you get out of a vehicle while in space. It also stands for extravehicular activity EVA. The first person to go on a spacewalk was Alexei Leonov it lasted 10 minutes long.
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Apollo 1
Virgil Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee were going to do a test flight in the spacecraft but didn't go well. They lost there lives when a fire swept through the command module.
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Apollo 8
The mission objectives for Apollo 8 included a coordinated performance of the crew, the command and service module, or CSM, and the support facilities. The mission also was to demonstrate trans lunar injection; CSM navigation, communications and mid-course corrections and passive thermal control. The detailed test objectives were to refine the systems and procedures relating to future lunar operations.
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Apollo 11
Apollo 11 launched from Cape Kennedy on July 16, 1969, carrying Commander Neil Armstrong, Command Module Pilot Michael Collins and Lunar Module Pilot Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin into an initial Earth-orbit . An estimated 530 million people watched Armstrong's televised image and heard his voice describe the event as he took "...one small step for a man, one giant leap for mankind"
https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/missions/apollo11.html
