Space Exploration

By breech90

  • Beginning

    The Soviets launched the first artificial satellite, sputnik 1, into space.

  • 1st Explorer

    The first satellite explorer went into orbit.

  • First American

    Alan Shepard became the first American to fly into space.

  • First to Orbit

    Russian Lt, Yuri Gagarin became the first to orbit the Earth in Vostok 1.

  • First man on the Moon.

    Landing a man on the moon and returning him safetly within a decade was a goal set by John F. Kennedy.

  • First American to Orbit Earth

    John Glen's historic fight made him the first American to Orbit Earth.

  • Lunar Orbiter 1

    Lunar orbiter 1 enters orbit around the moon and takes the first picture of the Earth from distance.

  • Edward Givens

    Astronaut, Edward Given, died in an automobile accident that day.

  • Man on the Moon

    Astronaut Neil Armstrong took a step for mankind on the moon.

  • Neil Armstrong died.

    Neil Armstrong, the first man to walk on the moon, died that year.