You might remember the first space expeditions which realized the marriage of technology and the American Dream.
When completed, her master closet will become the first space she enters in her 850-square-foot master suite.
In 1965, U.S. spacecraft Gemini 6 and Gemini 7 achieved the first space rendezvous, flying side by side for two orbits.
In 1988, in the first space mission since the explosion of the shuttle Challenger in January 1986, the shuttle Discovery was launched.
Zhigang performed the first space walk by a Chinese astronaut.
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The Third Era began in earnest in 1981, with the launch of the first Space Shuttle, Columbia, a mostly reusable workhorse designed to ferry astronauts, research experiments, satellites and equipment into Earth orbit.
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So it was to everybody's disappointment that Mariner 4, the first space probe to fly past Mars (in 1965), revealed a place with a surface that appeared to have been static for billions of years.
He has been cataloguing possible candidates from the Infrared Astronomical Satellite, a collaboration between America, Britain and the Netherlands that conducted the first space-based survey of the entire sky at infra-red wavelengths and located hundreds of thousands of sources.
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Earlier Thursday, new Alpha commander Frank Culbertson and Russian flight engineers Vladimir Dezhurov and Mikhail Tyurin beamed down a message marking the one-thousandth day in space for the first component of the space station, the Russian-built Zarya module.
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In 1957, the Soviet Union launched the first inhabited space capsule, Sputnik II, carrying a dog named Laika.
It promotes Axe's new cologne "Apollo" and its contest to send someone on the first suborbital space tour in 2014.
The Leap is entering the space first charted out in the popular mind by Microsoft with its Kinect game controller for the Xbox 360.
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Collected over 40 years by American physicist Don Gurnett, these sounds have recently been arranged by composer Terry Riley into what may be the very first space concerto.
The first images from space of the distribution of light sources on the planet's surface were published in 1989.
If all goes according to plan, the Shenzhou IX space craft should be re-connected manually to Tiangong by Sunday morning, marking a giant leap for Chinese space travel and the first stages in a permanent space station within the next 8 years.
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In 2006, the first stage of the Space for Science involved 18 SEE research and higher education institutions.
In 1995, NASA scientists received the first data from the space probe Galileo -- a message beamed over 2.3 billion miles (3.7 billion km).
During the Annefrank flyby, Stardust will run through the exact sequence planned for the comet encounter, with science instruments all running and relaying data at high speeds for the first time since the space probe's launch.
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Flint was one of the final 40 considered to be the first Journalist in Space before NASA cancelled the program after the Challenger crash.
Notable highlights in the ship's career have included the first construction mission to the ISS by a US orbiter, and the first servicing mission to the Hubble Space Telescope.
Coming after its first successful docking mission with the International Space Station, this marks the first time that a commercial spacecraft will be docking with the International Space Station with cargo.
The Czech MEP was the first man in space not to be from the US or the Soviet Union.
"Sending (the monkey into space) and retrieving it was the first step for sending humans into space, " Defense Minister Ahmad Vahidi said, according to the semi-official Fars News Agency.
This isn't the first time a space craft has fallen out of the sky.
So in the next year or two, we'll actually see the first privately funded space flights that take people out of the atmosphere and back.
Helen Sharman was the first Briton in space in 1991, but she had to raise the money needed to fly on a Russian spacecraft herself.
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For the first time in the Dead Space series, players will be able to team up and play together using seamless drop in, drop out co-op functionality.
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The first crew of the International Space Station took up residence 200 miles above Earth on this date 10 years ago and we have had a sustained human presence in space ever since.
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