history of space exploration

Answer the spacecraft and the people with the hint and year provided.

Remember to spacecraft names have numbers after them!

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Hint	Year	Answer
First rocket into space	1944	V2
First satellite into space	1957	sputnik 1
First animal in space	1957	Laika
First object in heliocentric orbit	1959	luna 1
First object to touch another celestial body	1959	luna 2
First human in space	1961	Yuri Gagarin
First Venus flyby	1961	venera 1
First Mars flyby	1965	Mariner 4
First spacewalker	1965	Alexei Leonov
First object to touch another planet	1966	venera 3
First to orbit another celestial body	1966	luna 10
First lift-off from an extraterrestrial body	1967	Surveyor 6
First crewed lunar orbiter	1968	Apollo 8
First crewed lunar landing	1969	Apollo 11
First person to walk on the moon	1969	Neil Armstrong
First lunar rover	1970	Lunokhod 1

Hint	Year	Answer
First space station	1971	Salyut 1
First Jupiter flyby	1974	Pioneer 10
First Mercury flyby	1975	Mariner 10
First images from another planet	1975	Venera 9
First international space mission	1975	Apollo-Soyuz
First Saturn flyby	1979	Pioneer 11
First Uranus flyby	1986	Voyager 2
First Neptune flyby	1989	Voyager 2
First asteroid flyby	1991	Galileo
First mars rover	1996	Mars Pathfinder
First asteroid landing	2001	NEAR Shoemaker
First outer solar system lander	2005	Huygens
First to exit the heliosphere	2012	Voyager 1
First Pluto flyby	2015	New Horizons
First production car in space	2018	Tesla Roadster

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