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The period in which Our spacecrafts began to be placed in orbit around Earth - commenced on October 4th, 1957:
* THE SPACE AGE BEGINS:
- October 4, 1957. Sputnik 1, the world's first artificial satellite is launched by the Soviet Union.
- October 7, 1959. Luna 3 takes the first pictures of the 'dark side of the moon' and transmits them back to Earth.
- April 12, 1961. Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man in space.
- March 18, 1965. Alexey Leonov makes the first 'spacewalk' during the Voskhod 2 mission.
- December 21-27, 1968. The crew of Apollo 8 becomes the first humans to leave the Earth's influence, and orbit another world, the Moon. First spacecraft to perform a Trans Earth Injection (TEI) maneuver.
- July 20, 1969. Neil Armstrong, commander of Apollo 11, becomes the first human being to walk on the Moon.
- April 19, 1971. Salyut 1 is launched, becoming the first space station.
- December 3, 1973. Pioneer 10 was the first spacecraft to make direct observations of Jupiter, and was the first spacecraft to travel through the asteroid belt.
- July 20, 1976. Viking 1 lands on Mars and transmits pictures from the surface.
- April 12, 1981. The first reusable space ship, the Space Shuttle is launched for the first time.
- February 19, 1986. The first long duration space station, Mir, is launched. Staying in orbit for over 15 years, occupants set several records in human space endurance.
- February 14, 1990. Voyager 1 takes the first photograph of the whole solar system.[1]
- April 24, 1990. The first large space telescope, the Hubble Space Telescope is launched into orbit.
- November 2, 2000. The first resident crew enters the International Space Station, a large space station designed as a human habitat.
- September 2008. China performs their first space walk, three men total exiting their spacecraft.
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