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Sputnik
1st man made object in spacee -
Vanguard 1
US 1st satellite is launched into space -
Yuri Gagarin
1st man in space from Russia -
Alan Shephard
1st US Astronaut in space -
John Glenn
1st American to orbit the Earth -
Period: to
1963 -1964
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Mariner 2
1st spacecraft to a planet -
Soviet Alexi Leonov
1st person to perform a spacewalk. -
Gemini 4 Edward White
1st American to perform a spacewalk. -
Surveyor 1
1st US spacecraft to soft-land on the moon -
Apollo 8
1st US craft to orbit the moon -
Apollo 11
Lands on the moon -
Period: to
1970-1973
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Pioneer 11
1st spacecraft launched to travel to Jupiter and Saturn -
Skylab
US launches first space station -
Viking 1
Gets the first photograph and soil samples Mars -
Period: to
1977 - 1981
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Voyager 2
Left Earth to travel out pas Uranus and Neptune -
Voyager 1
Left Earth to travel to Jupiter and Saturn -
Columbia Space Shuttle
1st fight of the 1st reusable space craft. -
Sally Ride
1st US woman in space -
Period: to
1986 - 1990
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MIR Space Station
was launched -
Period: to
1990 -1998
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Hubble Space Telescope
was launched -
Period: to
1998 - 2006
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New Construction on the ISS
New construction started on the international Space Station -
Period: to
2006 - 2012
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New Horizons
Arrives at Pluto -
Period: to
2012 - 2014
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Curiosity
The land rover Curiosity lands on Mars -
Philae Lander
Lands on the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko was not found until 9/2/2016
