Space exploration firsts
discovery and exploration of outer space and celestial objects outside Earth
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Sputnik was the first satellite, 1957
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Space suit of the first dog in space, Laika, 1957
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The first image of the far side of the moon
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Yuri Gagarin, first man in space, 1961
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Valentina Tereshkova, first woman in space, 1963
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Alexei Leonov who performed the first Space walk, 1965
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Space drone Luna 9 performed first soft landing on the moon, 1966
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Ham the Chimp, first higher primate in space, 1961
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Earthrise, Apollo 8, 1968
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Neil Armstrong about to take the first step on the Moon; the first human step on an extraterrestrial object, 1969
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Venera 7 first soft landing on another planet, 1970
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The Blue Marble, photo of Earth, Apollo 17, 1972
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Viking 1, first Mars lander, 1976
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First reusable spacecraft: The Space Shuttle Columbia lifting off, April 12, 1981 (NASA)
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Sojourner, first wheeled vehicle on another planet
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First permanently manned space station, Mir, which orbited the Earth from 1986 until 2001
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The International Space Station (ISS), the first internationally built and owned permanently manned space station
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Galileo, first orbit of outer planets
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NEAR Shoemaker, first asteroid lander, 2001
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A collage of the first 100 astronauts
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Deep Space 1, first ion propulsion spacecraft, 1998
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Philae, first comet lander, 2014