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chart: {
type: 'timeline'
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accessibility: {
screenReaderSection: {
beforeChartFormat: '<h5>{chartTitle}</h5>' +
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point: {
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xAxis: {
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yAxis: {
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},
title: {
text: 'Timeline of Space Exploration'
},
subtitle: {
text: 'Info source: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_space_exploration">www.wikipedia.org</a>'
},
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data: [{
name: 'First dogs',
label: '1951: First dogs in space',
description: '22 July 1951 First dogs in space (Dezik and Tsygan) '
}, {
name: 'Sputnik 1',
label: '1957: First artificial satellite',
description: '4 October 1957 First artificial satellite. First signals from space.'
}, {
name: 'First human spaceflight',
label: '1961: First human spaceflight (Yuri Gagarin)',
description: 'First human spaceflight (Yuri Gagarin), and the first human-crewed orbital flight'
}, {
name: 'First human on the Moon',
label: '1969: First human on the Moon',
description: 'First human on the Moon, and first space launch from a celestial body other than the Earth. First sample return from the Moon'
}, {
name: 'First space station',
label: '1971: First space station',
description: 'Salyut 1 was the first space station of any kind, launched into low Earth orbit by the Soviet Union on April 19, 1971.'
}, {
name: 'Apollo–Soyuz Test Project',
label: '1975: First multinational manned mission',
description: 'The mission included both joint and separate scientific experiments, and provided useful engineering experience for future joint US–Russian space flights, such as the Shuttle–Mir Program and the International Space Station.'
}]
}]
});