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firsts in spaceflight
| first | spacecraft / individual | date |
| artificial satellite | Sputnik 1 | Oct. 4, 1957 |
| living creature in space | dog Laika | Nov. 3, 1957 |
| American satellite | Explorer 1 | Feb. 1, 1958 |
| recorded message from space | SCORE | Dec. 18, 1958 |
| probe to reach escape velocity/lunar flyby | Luna 1 | Jan. 2, 1959 |
| polar orbiting satellite | Discoverer 1 | Feb. 28, 1959 |
| lunar impact | Luna 2 | Sep. 12, 1959 |
| weather satellite | Explorer 7 | Oct. 13, 1959 |
| active comsat | Courier 1B | Oct. 4, 1960 |
| human in space | Yuri Gagarin | Apr. 12, 1961 |
| satellite telephone call & TV broadcast | Echo 1 | Feb. 24, 1962 |
| real-time active comsat | Telstar 1 | Jul. 10, 1962 |
| successful planetary flyby (Venus) | Mariner 2 | Aug. 27, 1962 |
| woman in space | Valentina Tereshkova | Jun. 16, 1963 |
| geosynchronous satellite | Syncom 2 | Jul. 26, 1963 |
| joint US/USSR space project | Echo 2 | Jan. 25, 1964 |
| geostationary satellite | Syncom 3 | Aug. 19, 1964 |
| commercial comsat | Early Bird/Intelsat 1 | Apr. 6, 1965 |
| manned flight to leave Earth orbit | Apollo 8 | Dec. 21, 1968 |
| human on the Moon | Neil Armstrong, Apollo 11 | Jul. 21, 1969 |
| satellite repaired in orbit | SMM (by Shuttle) | Apr. 6, 1984 |
| satellites brought back from space | Shuttle mission STS-19 | Nov.16, 1984 |
| ion-powered deep space probe | Deep Space 1 | Oct. 24, 1998 |
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