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Humans have only been able to send spacecraft to explore space for

about 50 years. In that time, more than 100 robotic craft have travelled

into the Solar System to reveal what its planets, moons, asteroids, and

comets are like. They fly by, orbit, or land on these other worlds. Humans

have only been to the Moon, but aim to set foot on Mars in the future.

Space exploration

Russian satellite Sputnik 1

Alexei Leonov makes the first spacewalk

Apollo 8 orbits

the Moon

Valentina Tereshkova,

first woman in space

Yuri Gagarin, first

human in space

Apollo 11 lifts off

Spacecraft explore

the major bodies

of the Solar System

Dog

inside

capsule

Apollo 11^

crew return

to Earth in

command

module

Columbia

In orbit over

the Moon

Man walks on

the Moon

Re-entering Earth’s

atmosphere

Apollo 18^

with three US

astronauts

Mercury Atlas 5, with

chimpanzee Enos

on board

Sputnik 2 takes

Laika the dog

into space

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