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Soviets Launch Sputnik 1
Sputnik
This link contains the information, date, and other need-to-know things about Sputnik 1. -
Laika the Dog Launched Into Space
Laika the Dog Launched into Space
Laika was a dog.. A very... 'Different' Dog... She was launched into space!! -
Explorer I Gets Launched by the US
The United States launches its own statellite, Explorer I. It remains in orbit for 12 years, though it stops transmitting data in May 1958. In this photo, Dr Eberhard Rees, Major General John B Medaris, German-born rocket scientist Wernher von Braun, Dr Ernst Stuhlinger, Willi Mrazek and Dr Walter Haeussermann display a full-scale model of Explorer I! Man those were hard to spell! :P -
First Human in Space
Major Yuri Gagarin, a Soviet cosmonaut, becomes first human in outer space and the first to orbit the Earth. His craft, Vostok I, circles the Earth at 27,400 kilometres per hour in a flight lasting 108 minutes -
Alan Shepard: First American in Space
Alan Shepard becomes the first American in space, on a suborbital flight lasting just 15 minutes and 28 seconds. 20days after this achievement, President John F Kennedy pledges that America will send a man to moon before the end of the decade!!! -
John Glenn, First to Orbit Earth
John Glenn, aboard Friendship 7, becomes the first American to orbit the Earth. He circles the globe three times during a flight lasting 4 hours, 55 minutes, and 23 seconds :0 -
Apollo 1
The AS-204 mission, later renamed Apollo 1, is struck by tragedy when a fire breaks out during a test and training exercise on the launch pad. All three crew members - Virgil Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee - are killed. The tragedy leads to a complete redesign of NASA's command modules, and it is nearly 21 months before the launch and completion of the next manned mission, Apollo 7 -
Saturn V Rocket
The Saturn V rocket, which will go on to propel future Apollo spacecraft into space, has its first test flight -
Apollo 11 is Launched
Apollo 11 is launched!! :D -
First Humans to Walk on Moon
Neil Amstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin become the first humans to walk on the moon, fulfilling JFK's goal of reaching the moon by the end of the 60s
