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Konstantin Tsiolovsky is the first scientists that comes up with the idea of liquid fuel instead of solid fuel.
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The first liquid fuel rocket is launched by Robert Goddard, it makes it 109 mi into the air. This design is mostly used during WWII for the German military.
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The USSR launches the first artificial satellite into space, the Sputnik satellite was 58 cm in diameter and weighed 84 kg. Sputnik was in orbit for 3 months before it slowed down and chrashed into the Earth.
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The USSR launches another satellite, Sputnik 2. The difference is that in Sputnik 2 they launched the first animal into space, Laika. Laika was a stray that was trained for space travel.
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The USA launches its first satellite, Explorer 1.
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The USA's second satellite, Vanguard 1, is launched.
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The first Solar-Powered satelitte is launched into orbit by the US
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The first Communications Satelitte is launched into orbit to caputre data and communicate back and forth with Earth.
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The first heliocentric satellite, Luna 1, is launched by the USSR.
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The USA is the first to have a satellite go into a polar orbit, which is when a satellite orbits along the longitude lines instead of latitude.
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Sputnik 5 is the first satellite to bring and safely return life, plants and small animals, to space and back to Earth.
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Yuri Gagarin is the first cosmonaut to orbit the Earth, he orbited the Earth in the Vostok 1.
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John Glenn is the First Man to Orbit the Earth in the US.
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Mariner 4- NASA is the first satellite to flyby Mars.
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Voskhod 1 is the first to hold a crew of astronauts into space.
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The USSR the satellite Luna 9 to the Moon and is the first to capture pictures from another planet/ moon
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The USSR's Venera 3 is the first to land on Venus and record data.
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Gemini 8 ATV- NASA is the first spacecraft to successfully dock a spacecraft.
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The USA launches satellite Surveyor 1 to the Moon and captures pictures.
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Cosmos-186 and Cosmos-188 are the first spacecrafts to be docked via remote- control.
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The first Ultraviolet Observatory is made and launched into space, this is the OAO-2- NASA
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James Lovell, Frank Borman, and Bill Anderson are the first people to orbit another world, the Moon. They circled the Moon in the Apollo 8 and returned safely.
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The USA is the first to have the first humans on the moon, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Alrdrin the first men on the moon.
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The USA launches Syncom 3- NASA into a geostationary orbit around the Earth.
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Charles "Pete" Conrad is the first man to dance on the Moon, he was sent there by the Apollo 12- NASA.
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The first remote- controlled spacecraft to land on a planet/ moon is the Lunokhod 1
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The first lunar rover that was driven by humans, it was delivered by the Apollo 15- NASA
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The Mariner 9- NASA is the first spacecraft to orbit Mars
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The Pioneer 10- NASA is the first spacecraft to have a mission to travel beyond the asteroid belt.
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The USA broke the record for a crew to live up in space with 84 days.
