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Russians launch the first artificial satellite, Sputnick 1.
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Laika the dog becomes the first creature to enter space on the Sputnick 2, but dies a week after launch.
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The Explorer 1, the first US Satellite is launched into orbit.
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The Russian Probe, Luna 3 sends the first picture of the far side of the moon.
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NASA launches the chimpanzee, Ham, into space on a Mercury rocket.
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The Russian man, Yuri Gagarin, becomes the first person in space on a 108 minute flight on Vostik 1.
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Alan Shepard becomes the first American man to enter space.
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An American man John Glenn becomes the first man to orbit the Earth on the Friendship 7.
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The surface of Venus is scanned by NASA's Mariner 2
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The soviet cosmonaut, Valentina Tereshkova, becomes the first woman in space, aboard Vostok 6.
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The soviet cosmonaut, Alexey Leonov, made the first space walk.
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The spacecraft Marina 4 flies past Mars.
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Luna 9 performed the first ever moon landing in history.
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3 US astronauts are killed by a fire on the launch pad of the Apollo 1 spacecraft.
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The soviet cosmonaut, Vladimir Komorov becomes the first person to die in space.
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The soviet spacecraft, Venera 4 lands on Venus.
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The Apollo 8 becomes the first crewed spacecraft to orbit the moon.
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"This is one small step for man, but one giant leap for mankind!"
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The Russian's drive the first Rover on the moon.
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The Soviet's launch the first ever space station, the Salyut 1.
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The Pioneer 10 becomes the first space probe to fly by Jupiter.
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The Mariner 10 becomes the first space probe to fly by Mercury.
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Apollo and Soyuz spacecrafts become the first US and Soviet spacecrafts to be docked.
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The Viking 1 becomes the first probe to successfully land on Mars.
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The Pioneer 11 becomes the first probe to fly by Saturn!
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The Columbia becomes the first space shuttle to be launched into space.
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The Voyager 2 becomes the first probe to fly by Uranus.
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The Space shuttle Challenger explodes during launch and kills all 7 crew members.
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The Russian Space Station Mir is launched.
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The European space probe Giotto makes the first flyby of Halley's Comet.
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The first part of the International Space Station is launched!
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The Voyager 2 probe makes the first flyby of neptune.
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The Space Shuttle Discovery launches the Hubble Space Telescope.
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The Mars Climate Orbiter disappears after orbiting Mars.
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The Mars Polar Lander disappears, further embarrassing NASA.
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The Mir Space Station is abandoned and crashes off the coast of Australia into the Pacific Ocean.
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Dennis tito becomes the first tourist in space.
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The space shuttle Columbi explodes on re-entry, killing all seven astronauts.
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The twin Mars exploration rover missions Spirit and opportunity land on Mars.
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NASA's Kepler Space Telescope discovered the planet, Kepler-186f which is within the habitible zone of a star like our sun, meaning liquid can pool on its surface and it is possible that it could support life.
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Kjell Lindgren and Kimiya Yui sampled red romaine lettuce which was grown onboard the International Space Station.
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A recent study of 200 000 galaxies has shown that star formation is slowing and the universe is dying.
