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Fruit flies: first american animal in space
The United States put fruit flies aboard captured German V-2 rockets to study radiation exposure at high altitudes. -
Sputnik: USSR launched first satellite
The USSR launched Sputnik 1 and it starts it's orbit around the earth. -
Laika: first soviet animal in space
Laika was a Soviet space dog who became one of the first animals in space, and the first animal to orbit the Earth. -
Explorer 1: first american satellite in space
First satellite of the united states. -
Luna 2: USSR's space craft lands on the moon
The first human-made object to reach the surface of the Moon was the Soviet Union's Luna 2 mission. -
Yuri Gagarin: first human in space
He was the first human to journey into outer space when his Vostok spacecraft completed an orbit of the Earth. -
Alan Shepard: first american in space
Alan Shepard became the first American in space when the Freedom 7 spacecraft blasted off from Florida. -
Valentina Tereshkova: first woman in space
She is the first woman to have flown in space, having been selected from more than 400 applicants and five finalists to pilot Vostok 6. (USSR) -
First space walk: USSR Alexei Leonov
Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov made the first spacewalk in history. -
First american space walk: Ed White
On the Gemini 4 Mission, Ed White conducted the first american spacewallk. -
Apollo 11: men on the moon
Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that landed the first two humans: Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the Moon. -
Skylab: America's First space station
A Saturn V rocket launched into space with an important mission: putting Skylab, the first US space station, into orbit. -
Sally Ride: first USA woman in space
Sally Ride became the first American woman to fly in space when the space shuttle Challenger launched. -
First space station: Salyut 1
Salyut 1 launched unmanned from the Soviet Union, and it was the first space station launched by the USSR.
