Space Exploration Timeline

By meachamj37

  • Sputnik I

    First satellite in space. Showed that USSR could launch nuclear missiles.

  • Sputnik II

    The USSR launched Sputnik II containing Laika the Rocket Dog aboard.

  • Explorer I

    First US satellite. Showed that the US could launch nuclear missiles and caught them up in The Space Race.

  • NASA created

    NASA would become the head of US space exploration for the next 50 years.

  • Luna I

    Luna I became the first man made object to orbit the Sun.

  • Tiros I

    Tiros I becomes the first successful weather satellite.Lauched by US

  • Yuri Gagarin

    Yuri Gagarin becams the first man in space but not the first to orbit Earth. Launched by USSR

  • JFK speech

    John F. Kennedy said that he wanted to get a man to the moon and back safely in the next decade.

  • John Glenn

    John Glenn aboard Friendship VII, becomes the first American to orbit Earth.

  • Appolo 11

    Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin become the first men to walk on the moon.