aliyah-space race timeline

Launch of Sputnik - First Satellite from USSR

Oct 4, 1957

The day that USSR Satellite Sputnik launched

First Animal to Orbit Earth for USSR

Nov 3, 1957

The dog's name was Laika

First Satellite in Space for USA

Jan 31, 1958

It was called the Explorer 1

NASA creation

Jul 29, 1958

The forming of NASA

Ham the Chimp

Jan 31, 1961

The day when a Chimp went to space to perform tasks for NASA

FIrst man in space by the USSR

Apr 12, 1961

His name was Yuri Gagarin

First man in space by the US

May 5, 1961

His name was Alan Shepard

First man to orbit the Earth for US

Feb 20, 1962

His name was John Glenn

JFK's speech for getting to the moon

Sep 12, 1962

The day when JFK made his speech about the commitment of getting to the moon

First Gemini mission

Apr 8, 1964

The mission was unmanned

USSR's EVA on the moon

Mar 18, 1965

USSR's first EVA by Alexei Leonov

First EVA on moon for US

Jun 3, 1965

the date when the US got an EVA on the moon (Ed White)

5th Gemini mission

Aug 21, 1965

Held the 19th space flight of all time and was to see how long someone could last up in space

Gemini 9 tragedy

Feb 28, 1966

Plane crash as See and Basset attempted to land

10th Gemini mission

Jun 18, 1966

John Young and Micheal Collins went up to space to dock test with Agena target vehicle

Tragedy for Apollo 1

Jan 27, 1967

Three astronauts killed when a fire broke out during a launch rehearsal

Apollo 7

Oct 11, 1968

First Apollo mission to get to space

Apollo 8

Dec 21, 1968

First mission to take people to the moon and back

Apollo 9

Mar 3, 1969

First to carry a lunar module into orbit

Apollo 10

May 18, 1969

staging the Apollo 11 mission without landing on the moon

Apollo 11

Jul 7, 1969

First people to walk the moons surface