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Found in space.(Using a time line)
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Know Your World Extra
| Date:
March 18, 2005
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Read the list of space milestones described below. Then use the time line to put the events in the correct order. Place the letter of each milestone in the blank pointing to the year of that milestone. (The first answer is done for you.)
a. Sally Ride becomes the first American woman astronaut to travel in space. (1983)
b. Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first person to travel in space. (1961)
e. The Hubble Space Telescope is launched. (1990)
d. The rovers Spirit and Opportunity begin exploring Mars. (2004)
e. American ...
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