Space Exploration Timeline

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    Space Race

    The USSR and the United States battled in a race to be the first to explore space and get a man on the moon.

  • First Animal In Orbit

    A Russian Dog named Laika was the first animal to orbit Earth.

  • First Picture Of Earth from Orbit

    On this date NASA took the first picture of Earth from Orbit.

  • First Man in Space

    First human went in to space. He was named Yuri Gagarin and was from the USSR.

  • First Woman in Space

    The first woman to enter space was Valentina Tereshkova. A Russian who piloted a spacecraft called Vostok 6.

  • First Man on the Moon

    Neil Armstrong became the first human on the Moon. This also marked the first space launch from an object in space besides Earth.

  • First Mars Rover

    NASA succeeded in their first Mars Rover mission landing the Mars Pathfinder on Mars.