Events
Russians launch the first artificial satellite, Sputnik 1A dog named lakika becomes the first living creature sent from earth into space abord Russia's Sputnik 2Launch of the first Us satellite, Explorer 1Russian probe Luna 3 sends first pictures of the far side of the moonNASA launch a chimpanzee named Ham into space aboard a Mercury rocketFirst American in space (Alan Shepard)Russian Yuri Gagarin becomes the first person in space on a 108 minute flight in Vostok 1First astronaut to orbit earth (John Glenn U.S.A)NASA's Mariner 2 scans the surface of VenusSoviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space aboard the Vostok 1Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov makes the first space walkMariner 4 flies by marsFirst Moon landing (by Soviet spacecraft Luna 9)A fire on the launch pad of Apollo 1 kills three U.S astronauntsFirst death in space (Soviet astronaut Vladamir KomorovSOviet craft Venera 4 lands on VenusFirst crewed space craft to orbit the moon (Apollo 8)Niel Armstrong becomes the first person to walk on the moonRussian rover the first vehicle to drive on the moonLaunch of the first space station (Salyut 1FIrst space probe to fly by JupiterFirst space probe to fly by mercuryFirst US/Soviet spacecraft dockingFirst successful landing on MarsFirst Saturn fly byFIrst space shuttleFIrst Uranus fly bySpace shuttle challenger explodes killing 7launch of russian space station MIRFly by of Haleys cometNeptune fly byNeptune fly byHubble telescope launchFirst port of international space station is launchedMars climate orbiter disappearsPolar lander disappearsMir space station abandoned and crashesFirst tourist in spaceSpace shuttle columbia explodes during e entry killling 7Twin mars landers land on mars
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