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Why do you hate Russia and yet love space so much? Here is a list of Russian space achievements for you to educate yourself:
The Soviet space program pioneered many aspects of space exploration:
    1957: First intercontinental ballistic missile and orbital launch vehicle, the R-7 Semyorka
    1957: First satellite, Sputnik 1
    1957: First animal in Earth orbit, the dog Laika on Sputnik 2
    1959: First rocket ignition in Earth orbit, first man-made object to escape Earth's mavity, Luna 1
    1959: First data communications, or telemetry, to and from outer space, Luna 1.
    1959: First man-made object to pass near the Moon, first man-made object in Heliocentric orbit, Luna 1
    1959: First probe to impact the Moon, Luna 2
    1959: First images of the moon's far side, Luna 3
    1960: First animals to safely return from Earth orbit, the dogs Belka and Strelka on Sputnik 5.
    1961: First probe launched to Venus, Venera 1
    1961: First person in space (International definition) and in Earth orbit, Yuri Gagarin on Vostok 1, Vostok programme
    1961: First person to spend over 24 hours in space Gherman Titov, Vostok 2 (also first person to sleep in space).
    1962: First dual manned spaceflight, Vostok 3 and Vostok 4
    1962: First probe launched to Mars, Mars 1
    1963: First woman in space, Valentina Tereshkova, Vostok 6
    1964: First multi-person crew (3), Voskhod 1
    1965: First extra-vehicular activity (EVA), by Aleksei Leonov,[18] Voskhod 2
    1965: First probe to hit another planet of the Solar system (Venus), Venera 3
    1966: First probe to make a soft landing on and transmit from the surface of the moon, Luna 9
    1966: First probe in lunar orbit, Luna 10
    1967: First unmanned rendezvous and docking, Cosmos 186/Cosmos 188.
    1968: First living beings to reach the Moon (circumlunar flights) and return unharmed to Earth, Russian tortoises on Zond 5
    1969: First docking between two manned craft in Earth orbit and exchange of crews, Soyuz 4 and Soyuz 5
    1970: First soil samples automatically extracted and returned to Earth from another celestial body, Luna 16
    1970: First robotic space rover, Lunokhod 1 on the Moon.
    1970: First data received from the surface of another planet of the Solar system (Venus), Venera 7
    1971: First space station, Salyut 1
    1971: First probe to impact the surface of Mars, Mars 2
    1971: First probe to land on Mars, Mars 3
    1975: First probe to orbit Venus, to make soft landing on Venus, first photos from surface of Venus, Venera 9
    1980: First Hispanic and Black person in space, Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez on Soyuz 38
    1984: First woman to walk in space, Svetlana Savitskaya (Salyut 7 space station)
    1986: First crew to visit two separate space stations (Mir and Salyut 7)
    1986: First probes to deploy robotic balloons into Venus atmosphere and to return pictures of a comet during close flyby Vega 1, Vega 2
    1986: First permanently manned space station, Mir, 1986–2001, with permanent presence on board (1989–1999)
    1987: First crew to spend over one year in space, Vladimir Titov and Musa Manarov on board of Soyuz TM-4 - Mir
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