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The first U.S. satellite in orbit. It lifts off from Cape Canaveral using a ABMA-JPL Jupiter-C rocket. It discovered the Earth's raditation belt.
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This is launched by a Jupiter-C rocket, it failed to reach orbit.
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Vanguard 1 satellite is launched into orbit. It continued to transmit for 3 years.
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This U.S - IGY space probe is launched to a height of 70,700 miles.
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This is the fourth U.S. - IGY space probe was launched by a Juno II rocket. It achieved an earth-moon trajectory. It passed within 37,000 miles of the moon. After, it fell into a solar orbit and became the first U.S. sun orbiter.
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This was the first successful weather satellite.
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Discoverer XIV launches the first U.S. camera-equipped Corona spy satellite.
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This carries Alan B. Shepard, Jr. He was the first U.S. astronaut into space, in a suborbital flight.
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This lifted off with John H. Glenn, Jr. He was the first American in orbit and orbited around the Earth three times.
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M. Scott Carpenter was launched in this. It made three orbits.
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This U.S. satellite beamed the first love transatlantic telecast.
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This is the first successful planetary spacecraft. It flew past Venus and enetered a solar orbit.
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This relays the first close up photos of the moon.
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This was the first manned flight of the Gemini Program. Virgil I. Grissom and John W. Young were in this. It orbited three times around Earth.
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Ranger 9 transmitted high-quality images of the moon. Many were shown liv in the first TV spectacular about the moon.
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Duration of this was 22 minutes. Edward White II made the first U.S. spacewalk.
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This U.S. mission brought back the first close-range photos of Mars.
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Frank Borman and James A. Lovell, Jr. were launched in this. It made 206 orbits around Earth and proved that a trip to the moon is possible.
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Walter Schirra, Jr. and Thomas Stafford make the first space rendezvous with Gemini 7.
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The first U.S spacecraft to soft land on the moon.
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This enetered moon orbit and took the first photos of the Earth from the distance of the moon.
