sciencs By anderl09 Oct 4, 1957 Sputnik launched by ussr 1st artificial satelite put in space by the ussr. Apr 12, 1961 the soviets launched the first human in space Jan 27, 1967 Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee are killed when a fire ignites in their Apollo 1 capsule while performing a test on the launch pad May 27, 1968 Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, dies in a plane crash Jul 20, 1969 3 astronauts cicled the moon on apollo 11