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By jrainey

  • October 4, 1957

    Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1

  • November 3, 1957

    Sputnik 2 launches with ill-fated Laika the dog on board

  • January 31, 1958

    United States launches Explorer 1 from Cape Canaveral in Florida

  • October 1, 1958

    NASA is formed after Congress passes the National Aeronautics and Space Act

  • April 12, 1961

    Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human to eneter space and return saftely

  • May 5, 1961

    With the launch of Freedom 7 Alan Shepard becomes the first American man in space. The suborital flight which was part of the Mercury Project
    Lasted 15 minutes, 28 seconds

  • May 25, 1961

    U.S President John F. Kennedy announces the goal of sending astraunants to the moon before the end of the decade.

  • January 27 1962

    Mission AS-204 is struck by tragedy when flash fire breaks out during a launch pad test , killing 3 astraunants Virgil Grissom, Edward White, and Roger Chaffee
    Was later called Apollo 1

  • Feburary 20, 1962

    Launch of Friendship 7 makes astraunants John Glen the first American to go into orbit. Total flight time was just shy of 5 hours