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Sputnik launched by the USSR
1st artificial satellite put in space by the USSR. The U.S.A feared the USSR had the technology to launch a nuclear weapon. -
USSR launched dog named Laika into orbit.
When the USSR launched Laika into orbit, it proved that living things can survive in space. -
Luna 2 is 1st spacecraft to succesfully reach the moon.
The USSR made a satellite that reached the moon before the american astronauts did, and it was the 1st man-made object to do so. -
Yuri Gagarin is the first man in space.
This is when the Russians took an early lead in the Space Race. The next step was to send a human off of the planet. -
John F Kennedy launched the Moon Mission
John F. Kennedy launched the moon missions that eventually won the cold war. -
Valentina Tereshkova is first woman is space.
Valentina Tereshkova was in space for mor time than all of the astronauts before her. -
Ranger takes first close range images of the moon.
The Ranger spacecraft took pictures of the moon that helped to decide where to land for the Apollo 11 mission. -
USSR has first space walk.
Alexei Leonov is the first man to "walk" in space. -
First pilot docking in space.
The Soyuz 4 and the Soyuz 5 combined to make a space station with a crew of 4 people. -
U.S.A walked on the Moon.
The Apollo 11 mission happened because the Soviet Union and the U.S.A were in a Cold War. Finally the U.S.A won the Cold War because they landed on the Moon succesfully before the Soviet Union tried to land the Luna 15 on the U.S.A's site where they landed.