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Sputnik; USSR
1st artificial satellite. -
Lakia (dog); USSR
1st mammal in orbit. -
Mercury program; US
Mercury Program began. -
Yuri Gagarin; USSR
1st man in space. -
Alan Shepard (Projec t Mercury); US
1st US astronaut in space. -
John Glenn Jr. (Project Mercury); US
1st US astronaut to orbit the Earth. -
Gemini Program began; US
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Valentina Tereshkova; USSR
1st woman in space. -
Apollo program began; US
Began testing of the Saturn rockets in 1961. -
Neil Armstrong, Apollo 11; US
1st man on the moon. -
Voyager 2 Launched
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Voyager 1 launched.
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Columbia; US
1st space shuttle mission.