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1957 Satellite Launching (Russia)
1957
October 4 - The Soviet Union launched the first satellite, Sputnik, into space. -
1957 Sending Dog To Space
November 3 - The Soviet spacecraft Sputnik 2 was launched with a dog named Laika on board. Laika did not survive the voyage. -
1958 Launching Satellite (USA)
January 31 - Explorer 1 was the first satellite launched by the United States when it was sent into orbit on January 31, 1958. It was designed and built by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) of the California Institute of Technology. The satellite was sent aloft from Cape Canaveral in Florida by the Jupiter C rocket that was designed, built, and launched by the Army Ballistic Missile Agency (ABMA) under the direction of Dr. Wernher Von Braun. -
1960 Sending Dogs To Space AGAIN
August 19 - The Soviet craft Sputnik 5 was launched, carrying the dogs Strelka and Belka. They became the first living beings to survive a trip into space. -
1961 The REAL First Man To Be In Space
April 12 - Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space. Yes it is not Neil A. Armstrong -
1961 First American Astronaut that went to space
May 5 - Astronaut Alan Shepard became the first American in space.
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1961 JFK Challenging The Country To Put a Man On The Moon
May 25 - President Kennedy challenged the country to put a man on the moon by the end of the decade. -
1962 First Man On Orbit
February 20 - Astronaut John Glenn became the first American in orbit. He unfortunately died at the age of 95 years old -
1962 First Woman In Space
June 16 - Valentina Nikolayeva Tereshkova became the first woman in space. -
1965 Walking In Space
March 18 - While tethered to his spacecraft, cosmonaut Alexi Leonov became the first man to walk in space. -
1965 Walking In Space AGAIN
June 3 - Astronaut Ed White became the first American to walk in space. -
1965 Looking At Mars
July 14 - The spacecraft Mariner 4 transmitted the first pictures of Mars. -
1966 Land On Moooooooon
February 3 - The Russian spacecraft Luna 9 became the first spacecraft to land on the moon. -
1966 American Spacecraft On The Moon???
June 2 - Surveyor 1 became the first American spacecraft to land on the moon. -
1967 RIP Gus, Ed, and Roger
January 27 - Astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee were killed in an accidental fire in a command module on the launch pad. -
1967 RIP Vladimir M. Komarov
April 24 - Cosmonaut Vladimir M. Komarov was killed in a crash when the parachute on his Soyuz 1 spacecraft failed to deploy. -
1967 Data About The Atmosphere Of Venus
October 18 - A descent capsule from the Soviet probe Venera 4 collected data about the atmosphere of Venus. -
1968 Zond 5 Launching
September 15 - The Soviet spacecraft Zond 5 was launched and later became the first spacecraft to orbit the moon and return to Earth. -
1968 Apollo 8 Mission
December 21 - Apollo 8 was launched, and later her crewmembers became the first men to orbit the moon. -
"One Small Step For A Man One Giant Leap For Mankind"
July 20 - Neil Armstrong and "Buzz" Aldrin became the first men on the moon. -
1970 launching the Apollo 13
April 11 - Apollo 13 was launched. -
1970 Launching Another Space Rocket
September 12 - The Soviet craft Luna 16 was launched and became the first automatic spacecraft to return soil samples of the moon. -
1970 Sending Robot To The MOOOOOON with Luna17
November 17 - The Soviet automatic robot Lunokhod 1 landed on the moon with Luna 17. -
1970 Landing in Venus
December 15 - The Soviet Venera 7 became the first probe to land on Venus. -
1971 Launching Salyut
April 19 - The Soviet space station Salyut 1 was launched. -
1971 Moon Rover driven and it actually went into a game called gran turismo
July 30 - The moon rover was driven on the moon for the first time. It became a thing in car games such as Gran Turismo. -
1971 Sending Another Probe
November 13 - The Mariner 9 probe became the first craft to orbit another world - Mars. -
1972 Last Men On The Moon....
December 11 - Eugene Cernan and Harrison "Jack" Schmitt became the last men to walk on the moon.
