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On this date Galileo Galilei was the first person to see the moon through a telescope.
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On this date Robert H. Goddard launches first liquid fueled rockets.
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On this date Hermann Oberth launches first personal rocket with students
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On this date Hermann Oberth launches first personal rocket with students.
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On this date the German Military develops first German military liquid fueled rockets.
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On this date the German Military produced their first liquid fueled rockets.
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On this date the Soviet Union launched their very first rocket.
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On this date the first U.S designed rocked reached the edge of space by WAC Corporal.
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The first research flight was launched by the U.S and was captured by the V-2 space rocket
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On this date the U.S collected their first pictures of Earth from the V-2 rocket.
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On this date the USSR launched their first intercontinental balistic missle. This missle was called R-7 Semyorka.
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On this date the USSR recieved their first signals from space from Sputnik 1.
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On this date Explorer 1 was the first satelite sent in a s pace orbit by the U.S
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The Soviet craft Sputnik 5 was launched, carrying the dogs Strelka and Belka. They became the first living beings to survive a trip into space.
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Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space.
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Astronaut Alan Shepard became the first American in space.
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President Kennedy challenged the country to put a man on the moon by the end of the decade.
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Valentina Nikolayeva Tereshkova became the first woman in space.
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While tethered to his spacecraft, cosmonaut Alexi Leonov became the first man to walk in space.
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Surveyor 1 became the first American spacecraft to land on the moon.
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Neil Armstrong and "Buzz" Aldrin became the first men on the moon.
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Columbia became the first space shuttle ro be launched.
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Voyager 2 reached Saturn and began transmitting images.
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Sally Ride became the first American woman in space on Challenger’s second mission
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Astronaut Bruce McCandless became the first man to take an untethered space walk.
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The Space Shuttle Challenger exploded seconds after liftoff.
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Mae Jemison became the first African-American woman in space.
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Eileen Collins became the first female Shuttle pilot.
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NASA launched the largest-diameter infrared telescope ever in space, the Spitzer Space Telescope.
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NASA launched its Phoenix Mars Lander.
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NASA's Dawn spacecraft became the first man made craft to orbit an asteroid.
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NASA launched Curiosity, the biggest, best equipped robot ever sent to explore another planet. It will reach Mars in 2012.
