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===1942-1975===
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! Date
! First Success
! Country
! Mission Name
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||Rocket to reach 100km (])
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|| ], military program
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||July 1946
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||First pictures of earth from 100 km
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||] (ICBM)
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||Artificial satellite <br>Signals from space
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||First animal in ], the dog ]
||] USSR
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||Detection of ]
||] USA-ABMA
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||] USA-ABMA
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||Firing of a rocket in Earth orbit <br>Reaching ] <br>Detection of ]
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||Orbit around the Sun
||] USSR
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|-
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||] ] (])<sup>1</sup>
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||Photo of Earth from space
||] USA-NASA
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||] on another world (the Moon)
||] USSR
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||Photos of ]
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||photo ]
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||Launch from orbit <br>Mid-course corrections <br>] <br>Venus fly-by
|valign=top|] USSR
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|valign=top|], ]
||Human in space <br>Human in orbit
|valign=top|] USSR
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||Mars flyby
||] USSR
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||Woman in space
||] USSR
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||] (''suborbital'')
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||Multi-man crew (3)
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||] USSR
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||Commercial communications satellite
||] Intelsat
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||Orbital ] (parallel flight, no docking)
||] USA-NASA
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||] on another world (the Moon) <br>Photos from another world
|valign=top|] USSR
|valign=top|]
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||Landing on another planet (Venus)
||] USSR
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||Artificial satellite around another world (the Moon)
||] USSR
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||Spaceflight casualty
||] USSR
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||Unmanned ]
||] USSR
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||Manned docking and exchange of crew
||] USSR
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||Human on the Moon
||] USA-NASA
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||] from the Moon
||] USSR
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||] USSR
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||Soft landing on another planet (Venus) <br>Signals from another planet
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||December ]
||Orbit around Mars
||] USSR
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||Mars landing
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||Soft Mars landing <br>signals from Mars surface
|valign=top|] USSR
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||Multinational manned mission
||] USSR ] USA-NASA
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||Orbit around another planet (Venus)
||] USSR
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||Photos from the surface of another planet (Venus)
||] USSR
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|}
<sup>1</sup>Project Vanguard was transferred from the NRL to NASA immediately before launch.

===Post-1975===
{| border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0"
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! Date
! First Success
! Country
! Mission Name
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||Non-American and non-Soviet in space
||] USSR ] Czechoslovakia
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|-
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||] (''orbital'')
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||]
|-
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||Venus soil samples & sound recording of another world
||] USSR
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|-
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||Spacecraft beyond the orbit of Neptune||] USA-NASA
||]
|-
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||] by a woman||] USSR
||]
|-
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||Commercial manned-spaceflight
||] USSR ] Japan
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|-
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||Submarine-launched spacecraft
||] Russia
||]
|-
||] ]
||]
||] Russia ] USA
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|-
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||Third nation to achieve manned spaceflight
||] China
||]
|-
||] ]
||Private human spaceflight / spacecraft (''suborbital'') ||] ]
||]
|}

In addition, virtually all manned duration records have been set by the USSR, due largely to their Salyut/Mir series of space stations.

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