1949 - USA send a monkey into space on a V2 rocket., October 1957 - USSR send first satellite into orbit around the Earth called Sputnik, November 1957 - USSR send Laika, a dog, into space. The first animal in orbit., October 1959 - USSR complete 1st orbit of the moon and take photos of the dark side of the moon., September 1959 - USSR crash lands a probe onto the moon. The first human object on the moon., April 1961 - USSR put Yuri Gagarin to space. The 1st man in space. He completes an orbit of the Earth and is in space for 1hr 48 minutes, May 1961 - USA put first American in space, Alan Shepard, for 15 minutes., 1963 - USSR - First woman in space - Valentina Tereshkova, March 1965 - USSR - First space walk - Aleksey Leonov -, July 1965 - USA - First satellite voyage to Mars, 1968 - USA - Apollo 8 is the 1st human crewed space craft to reach the moon, orbit it and return to Earth., 1969 - Apollo 11 lands on the moon and Neil Armstrong becomes the first man on the moon.,

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