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USSR launches Sputnik 1
First staellite succesfuly launched in to orbit around the earth -
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The Space Race
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USSR launched Sputnik 2 with a dog named Laika
First attempt at putting someone into space -
U.S.A launches Explorer 1
Explorer 1 leads to the discovery of the Van Allen radiation belt -
U.S.A launches Explorer 2
Explorer 2 fails to reach orbit -
U.S.A launched Vanguard 1
functions for about 3 years -
NASA formed
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USSR launches Luna 1
first man made object to orbit the sun -
USSR laucnhes Luna 2
first man made object to colide with the moon -
USSR launches Luna 3
Luna 3 orbits and photographs 70% of the moons surface -
U.S.A launch Tiros 3
First succesful weather satellite to be launched -
U.S.A launches Discovery 14
First camera equipped spy satellite -
John F. Kennedy is elected president
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Yuri Gagarin orbits the earth
Becomes first man in space -
Alan B. shepard becomes first american in space
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JFK makes famous moon speach
JFK challenges teh nation to get to the moon before the end of the decade -
John Glenn orbits the earth 3 times
first man to spend 3 days in space -
Cosmonaut Valentia Tereshkova becoems first woman to be launched into space
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Alexei Leonov spends 12 minutes outside of his space craft performing the first space walk
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Mariner 4 returns first close ranged pictures of mars
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Luna 9 Becomes the first spacecraft to soft land on the moon
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Luna 10 becomes first satellite to orbit the moon
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Surveyor 1 soft lands on the moon
FIrst american spacecraft to do so -
Lunar Orbiter 1 enters orbit around the moon and takes first picture of earth from that distance
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Venera 4 transmits data about the atmosphere of venus
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Neil armstrong and Buzz aldrin becoem first men to walk on the moon
The USA reaches the moon
