Space race

Ashley Space Race

By giambash
  • USSR's First Satellite in Space

    USSR's First Satellite in Space

    Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite. It launched into an elliptical low earth orbit, orbiting for 3 weeks before batteries died, silently continuing for 2 more months before falling back into the atmosphere.
  • USSR's First Animal in Space

    USSR's First Animal in Space

    Laika was a Soviet space dog who became one of the first animals in space, and the first animal to orbit the Earth.
  • First satellite in space by USA

    First satellite in space by USA

    The first successful U.S. satellite, Explorer I, launched into Earth's orbit by the Army, at Cape Canaveral, Florida, four months after Russia orbited Sputnik.
  • Creation of NASA

    Creation of NASA

    Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act, establishing NASA.
  • First animal in space by USA

    First animal in space by USA

    Ham was a chimpanzee and the first hominid launched into space, as part of the U.S. space program's Project Mercury.
  • First man in space/First man to orbit Earth by USSR

    First man in space/First man to orbit Earth by USSR

    Yuri Gagarin was the first person to fly in space. His flight, on April lasted 108 minutes as he circled the Earth for a little more than one orbit in the Soviet Union's Vostok spacecraft.
    He also became the first man to orbit the planet, a feat accomplished by his space capsule in 89 minutes.
  • First man in space by USA

    First man in space by USA

    NASA astronaut Alan Shepard blasted off in a Freedom 7 capsule atop a Mercury-Redstone rocket to become the first American in space.
  • JFK's Commitment to getting to the Moon

    JFK's Commitment to getting to the Moon

    Kennedy began a dramatic expansion of the U.S. space program and committed the nation to the ambitious goal of landing a man on the Moon by the end of the decade.
  • First man to orbit Earth by USA

    First man to orbit Earth by USA

    Glenn flew the Friendship 7 mission, becoming the first American to orbit the Earth
  • First man to do an EVA by USSR

    First man to do an EVA by USSR

    The first EVA was performed by Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, who spent 12 minutes and 9 seconds outside the Voskhod 2 spacecraft.
  • First man to do an EVA by USA

    First man to do an EVA by USA

    Ed White became the first American astronaut to walk in space during his Gemini IV spacewalk, AKA extravehicular activity (EVA).