Year/s
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Event/s
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1945
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Atomic bomb
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1950
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Beginning of Cold War
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1957
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Sputnik launched
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1961-1963
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Mercury missions
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1961
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Kennedy moon speech
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1963
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Kennedy assassinated
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1965 – 1966
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Gemini missions
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1968 – 1972
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Apollo missions
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1969
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Moon landing – Neil Armstrong
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1973 - 1979
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Skylab
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1975
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Apollo / Soyuz missions
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1981
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Space Shuttle program begins with launch of Columbia
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1986
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Challenger disaster
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1998
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Construction begins on International Space Station (ISS)
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2003
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Columbia disaster
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2011 / July
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Last space shuttle flight - Atlantis
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2011
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Space shuttle program is retired
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2014 – 2024
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Have students predict future events in manned space flight. Be creative! What could be next?
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