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First officail satellite
Sputnik I was launched by the Soviet Union -
Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin completes the first manned space flight.
he orbited the Earth 108 minutes. -
President Kennedy declares the American space objective.
To put a man on the moon and return him safely by the end of the decade. -
The first woman in space.
Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova made 48 complete orbits. -
man's first spacewalk
Cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov takes the first space walk -
NASA astronaut Alan Shepard blasted off
in Freedom 7 capsule atop Mercury-Redstone rocket to become the first American in space -
man walks on the moon
Neil Armstrong and Edwin Buzz Aldrin of Apollo XI spend 21 1/2 hours on the moon, 2 1/2 of those outside the capsule. -
Sally Ride becomes first American woman in space.