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  1. 5. 2007 August 4 - NASA launched its ______ Mars Lander.
  2. 7. 2022 April 8 SpaceX flight to the International Space Station carries three paying ________ who paid US$55 million each for a stay of more than a week. [1539.6]
  3. 8. 1973 May 14 - The U.S. launched its first space station, _______.
  4. 11. 1968 September 15 - The Soviet spacecraft Zond 5 was launched and later became the first spacecraft to orbit the moon and return to _______.
  5. 12. 2014 November 12 The Rosetta spacecraft's Philae probe successfully lands on ________ 67P, the first time in history that a spacecraft has landed on such an object. [1209]
  6. 13. 2017 August 17 The first observation of a collision of two ______ stars (GW170817) is hailed as a breakthrough in multi-messenger astronomy when both gravitational and electromagnetic waves from the event are detected. Data from the event provide confirmatory evidence for the r-process theory of the origin of heavy elements like gold. [1269]
  7. 15. 1997 July 4 - The Mars _________ arrived on Mars and later began transmitting images.
  8. 18. 2009 March 6 - The NASA spacecraft _______ was launched. Its mission is to search for planets outside our solar system, in a distant area of the Milky Way.
  9. 20. 1962 February 20 - Astronaut John ______ became the first American in orbit.
  10. 22. 2003 February 1 - The Space Shuttle _______ broke up on re-entry into the Earth’s atmosphere.
  11. 23. 1980 November 13 - Voyager 1 reached ______ and began transmitting images.
  12. 25. 2021 February 18 NASA's Mars 2020 mission (containing the Perseverance rover and Ingenuity helicopter drone) lands on Mars at________ Crater, after seven months of travel. [1420]
  13. 26. 1957 November 3 - The Soviet spacecraft Sputnik 2 was launched with a dog named ______ on board. Laika did not survive the voyage.
  14. 29. 2010 December 8 - A private company named _______ launched a spacecraft into orbit and returned it to earth safely. It was the first non-government organization to accomplish this.
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  1. 1. 1981 April 12 - ________ became the first Space Shuttle to be launched.
  2. 2. 1961 April 12 - Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first ______ in space.
  3. 3. 1966 February 3 - The Russian spacecraft Luna 9 became the first spacecraft to land on the ______.
  4. 4. 1984 February 3 - Astronaut Bruce McCandless became the first man to take an _______________ space walk.
  5. 6. 1990 August 24 - The Space Shuttle Discovery deployed the ________ Space Telescope.
  6. 8. 1957 October 4 - The Soviet Union launched the first satellite, _______, into space.
  7. 9. 1961 May 5 - Astronaut Alan ______ became the first American in space.
  8. 10. 1969 July 20 - Neil Armstrong and "Buzz" Aldrin became the first men on the ______.
  9. 14. 1986 January 28 - The Space Shuttle ________ exploded seconds after liftoff.
  10. 16. 1961 May 25 - President _______ challenged the country to put a man on the moon by the end of the decade.
  11. 17. 2012 August 6 - NASA's _______ rover successfully landed on Mars. As large as a car, it carried an array of advanced new instruments and experiments.
  12. 19. 1965 July 14 - The spacecraft Mariner 4 transmitted the first ______ of Mars.
  13. 21. 1960 August 19 - The Soviet craft Sputnik 5 was launched, carrying the dogs Strelka and Belka. They became the first ______ beings to survive a trip into space.
  14. 23. 1971 April 19 - The Soviet space ________ Salyut 1 was launched.
  15. 24. 2001 April 28 - American Dennis Tito became the first________ in space after paying the Russian space program $20,000,000.
  16. 27. 1965 March 18 - While tethered to his spacecraft, cosmonaut Alexi Leonov became the first man to ______ in space.
  17. 28. 1970 December 15 - The Soviet Venera 7 became the first probe to land on _______.