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President Eisenhower signed the act creating NASA -
Launched at 7:28 PM, Sputnik was the first artificial satellite to be launched into Earth's low elliptical orbit by the USSR. -
The first animal to orbit the earth for the USSR on Sputnik 2 -
The first satellite in space for the US -
First man in space for the USSR was Yuri Gagarin -
The first man to be in space for the US was Alan Shepard -
Astronaut John Glenn was the first man to orbit the earth for the US in the friendship 7 -
JFK commits to going to the moon and a few other advancements in his speech before the national space effort -
Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov Was the first man to leave his spacecraft in space for the USSR -
First earth-orbiting crewed spacecraft in the Gemini missions -
First man to safely leave his spacecraft in space for the US was ED White -
Second crewed mission in the Gemini missions and contained the first US spacewalk -
Was used as a trial run for the ATDA (Augmented Target Docking Adaptor) but it failed because of a preparation error -
The final crewed Gemini mission that connected the Mercury and Apollo programs -
The oxygen-rich atmosphere of the Apollo capsule caused a fire that broke out to spread fast losing two members of the crew to the flames -
The first crewed mission in the Apollo program launched into Earths orbit -
The first crewed Apollo mission to be within the Moons vicinity -
The first flight of the full Apollo Spacecraft -
Test run for tall the lunar landing mission components besides landing on the Moon -
The first time landing on the moon for the US making Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin the first people on the Moon -
The first monkey to perform tasks in space for the US