| 18th July 1921 | John Glenn born
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| 18th November 1923 | Alan Shepard born
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| 20th January 1930 | Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin born
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| 5th August 1930 | Neil Armstrong born
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| 9th March 1934 | Yuri Gagarin born
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| 4th October 1957 | Sputnik 1 launched
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| 3rd November 1957 | USSR launch the first animal (Laika a dog) into space - and leave her to die there
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| 28th May 1959 | Two monkeys become the first living creature in space
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| 12th April 1961 | Major Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin becomes the first man in space
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| 5th May 1961 | Alan Shepard becomes the first US Man in space
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| 20th February 1962 | John Glenn becomes the first American astornaut to orbit the earth
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| 26th April 1962 | US space ship Ranger IV lands on the moon
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| 16th June 1963 | Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space
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| 3rd February 1966 | Russia lands probe on Moon
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| 2nd June 1966 | The first US Space ship lands on the Moon
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| 27th January 1967 | Apollo 1 catches fire killing 3 astronauts
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| 24th April 1967 | Russian space ship Soyuz I crashes
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| 5th May 1967 | First British Satallite launched
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| 24th December 1968 | Man orbits the moon for the first time aboard Apollo 8
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| 21st July 1969 | Neil Armstong becomes the first man to walk on the moon
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| 19th November 1969 | Apollo 12 lands on Moon
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| 14th April 1970 | Apollo 13 explosion
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| 30th June 1971 | Soyuz 11 crew found die on re-entry
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| 13th November 1971 | Mariner 9 reaches Mars
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| 28th January 1986 | Challenger Space shuttle explodes on take off
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| 25th August 1989 | Voyager 2 reaches Neptune
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| 18th May 1991 | Helen Sharman becomes the first Briton in space
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| 28th April 2001 | Denis Tito the first space tourists takes off
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| 1st February 2003 | Columbia Space Shuttle disintergrates on re-entry
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| 25th December 2003 | British built probe Beagle 2 disappears on Mars
The Britsh Mars lander built on a shoestring that landed on the surgfce of mars with a silent thud.
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