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The first satellite in space, Sputnik-1, 1957; The first animal in Earth orbit, Laika on Sputnik-2, 1957: First probe on the Moon, Luna-2, 1959; First images of the Moon's far side, Luna 3, 1959; First person in space and in Earth orbit, Yuri Gagarin on Vostok 1, 1961; First person to spend over 24 hours in space Gherman Titov, Vostok 2, 1961; First probe launched to Mars, Mars 1, 1962; First woman in space, Valentina Tereshkova, Vostok 6, 1963; First extra-vehicular activity, Alexsei Leonov, Voskhod 2, 1965; First radio telescope in space, Zond 3, 1965; First probe in lunar orbit, Luna 10, 1966; First image of the whole Earth disk, Molniya 1, 1966; First uncrewed rendezvous and docking, Cosmos 186 and Cosmos 188, 1967; First living beings to reach the Moon (circumlunar flights) and return unharmed to Earth, on Zond-5, 1968; First soil samples automatically extracted and returned to Earth from another celestial body, Luna 16, 1970; First full interplanetary travel with a soft landing and useful data transmission, Venera 7, 1970; First robotic space rover, Lunokhod 1, on the Moon, 1970; First space station, Salyut 1, 1971; First probe to land on Mars, Mars 3, 1971; First probe to orbit Venus, to make a soft landing on Venus, first photos from the surface of Venus, Venera 9, 1975; First woman to walk in space, Svetlana Savitskaya, Salyut-7, 1984; First probes to deploy robotic balloons into Venus atmosphere and to return pictures of a comet during close flyby Vega 1, Vega 2, 1986; First permanently crewed space station, Mir, 1986; First crew to spend over one year in space, Vladimir Titov and Musa Manarov on board of Soyuz TM-4 – Mir, 1987; First fully automated flight of a spaceplane, Buran, 1988; And the United States, whose seemingly one and only achievement in this Space “Race” is the Moon landings, and who seems to have forgotten they killed multiple astronauts, still claims some kind of victory on this?
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