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Chuck Yeager is the first man to fly at a speed faster than the speed of sound!
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The first rocket ever was launched out of Port Canaveral, Florida
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Jacquelin Cochran is the first woman to fly faster than the speed of sound.
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Russia proudly launches Sputnick, the first satellite into orbit around earth.
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America, following in Russia's footsteps, launches their first satellite, less than a year later. The name of Amerca's first satellite was called Explorer 1
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Dwight D. Eisenhower created NASA.
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A Russian man, Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human in space on april 12, 1961. His flight lasted 108 minutes on the vostok 1 spacecraft.
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On May 5, 1961, Alan Shepard becomes the first american to travel to space.
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President John F. Kennedy makes his speech to congress challenging the nation to "land a man on the moon and return him safely to Earth"
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John Glenn becomes the first ameircan to orbit the earth, he made 3 orbits and it took him 4 hours and 56 minutes.
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The russians are the first to have a spaecraft on the Moon. Its name was Luna 9. Luna 9 took pictures of the moons surface so people could be sure the moon was durable enough to support the weight of a larger spacecraft.
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America, following in Russsias footsteps, once again, sends their first spacecraft to the Moon. It was names Surveyor 1 and it took thousands of high-resolution pictures of the moon.
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The first manned mission to the Moon, Apollo 11, carried Neal Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin who becam e the first men to set foot on another planet.
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American space probe Mariner 9 is the first spacecraft to orbit another planet, Mars. Over the next year, it maps the entire surface of Mars.
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The Voyager 2 Spacecraft is launched out of kennedy space center and its mission was to explore the outer planets(Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune) and their satellites.
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Voyager 1 is launched from Kennedy Space center on September 5, 1977. Its mission was to explore Jupiter and Saturn and their satellites.
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Voyager 1 arrives at jupiter and begins sending back pictures of the planet and its moons.
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Voyager 2 arrives at saturn and begins taking pictures of Saturn and its moons.
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Voyager 2 arrives at its first destination Jupiter and begins taking pictures of Jupiter and its moons.
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The First manned mission of the STS-1 is launched and is named the Columbia. This mission and the next 3 after it were test flights to test the spacecrafts systems.
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The Voyager 2, 4 years after its launch date, has reached its second destination. The Voyager 2 takes pictures of Saturn and its moons.
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The second space shuttle is launched and is named Challenger. On this mission the first American space walk in 9 years occurs.
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The third orbiter of of the American Space Shuttle fleet, Discovery is launched.
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The fourth orbiter in the american space shuttle fleet, Atlantis is launched.
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Voyager 2 encounter Uranus and sends back the very first close up pictures of Uranus and its moons.
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The Voyager 2 reaches neptune and gives us the first images of neptune.
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This maiden voyage brings the number of orbiters back to four.
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The space shuttle Atlantis was the last Americsn space shuttle to be launched into space.
