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- #e <t>launch<d>1957 Oct 4<n>Sputnik<c>U.S.S.R.
- #e <t>launch<d>1958 Jan 31<n>Explorer I, first U.S. satellite<c>U.S.
- #e <t>launch<d>1960 Apr 1<n>Tiros, first U.S. weather satellite<c>U.S.
- #e <t>launch<d>1961 Jun 29<n>TRANSIT 4A<c>U.S.<info>first satellite to carry a nuclear powerplant
- #e <t>launch<d>1965<n>France's first satellite<c>France<info>France is the third country in space
- #e <t>launch<d>1967<n>Australia's first satellite<c>Woomera<info>Australia is the fourth country in space
- #e <t>launch<d>1970 Apr 24<n>China's first satellite<c>China
- #e <t>launch<d>1978 Feb 22<n>Navstar 1<c>U.S.
- #e <t>launch<d>1981 Apr<n>first flight of Space shuttle Columbia<c>U.S.
- #e <t>launch<d>1982 Oct 12<n>GLONASS 1<c>Soviet Union
- #e <t>launch<d>1990 Apr 24<n>Hubble Space Telescope<c>U.S.
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- #e <t>space<d>1959 Jan 2<n>Luna I leaves the earth-moon system<c>U.S.S.R.<info>first to do so
- #e <t>space<d>1961 May 5<n>first U.S. manned space flight<c>U.S.
- #e <t>space<d>1962 Feb 20<n>John Glenn orbits earth<c>U.S.
- #e <t>space<d>1965 Mar 18<n>first space walk<c>U.S.S.R.<info>by LCol Aleksey Arkhipovich
- #e <t>space<d>1965 Jun 3<n>first U.S. space walk<c>U.S.
- #e <t>space<d>1966 Feb 3<n>Luna IX makes first soft landing on moon<c>U.S.S.R.
- #e <t>space<d>1966 Mar 1<n>Venus III makes first landing on another planet<c>U.S.S.R.
- #e <t>space<d>1969 Jul 20<n>Apollo 11 lands on the moon<c>U.S.
- #e <t>space<d>1969 Jul 21<n>Neil Armstrong walks on the moon<c>U.S.
- #e <t>space<d>1970<n>Venera 7 lands on Venus<c>U.S.S.R.
- #e <t>space<d>1972 Dec<n>Apollo 17 flies last trip to moon<c>U.S.
- #e <t>space<d>1978 Jan 24<n>A Soviet satellite falls into Canadian north<c>Canada<info>containing a nuclear reactor
- #e <t>space<d>1997 Oct 14 <n>RADARSAT completes imaging of Antarctica<c>Antarctica<info>first high-resolution imaging
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