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First Animal in Space
Fruit flies were sent by the US aboard the captured German V-2 rockets to study radiaton exposure at high altitudes. -
First Country in Space
The USSR successfully sent the world's first artificial satellite to space. Sputnik I was about the size of a beach ball. -
First animal to orbit in space
Laika, the little stray dog, was the first animal to orbit Earth, sent by the USSR. -
First Man in Space
Russian Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin was the first human in space in the Vostok 1 spacecraft. -
Mercury Missions
First Human space flight program being the nation's first program for astronauts. There were 6 flights with 6 astronauts flown. -
Liberty Bell 7
Astronaut Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom manned the mission. -
Friendship 7
John Glenn was launched from Cape Canaveral. He was the first American to orbit the Earth. -
Gemini 7
Carried astronauts Frank Borman and Jim Lovell. Mission lasted 14 days. -
Apollo 11
First mission to land on the moon on the Saturn V rocket with Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin. -
Apollo 13
A successful failure. Astronauts were saved before they died in space, yet, never reached the moon.
