Space Race

By mkell16

  • Sputnik 1

    First artificial satellite launched in space
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    Space Race

  • Alan B. Shepard

    First U.S. citizen in space

  • first human in space

    Yuri A. Gagarin, soviet cosmonaut, first human in space

  • Mariner 2

    Verifie high tempuratures in Venus's atmosphere

  • Project Mercury

    First step in U.S. sending a man to the moon

  • John Glenn

    First U.S. citizen to orbit Earth

  • Project Gemini

    Second step in U.S. to reach the moon

  • Surveyor

    Survayed the surface of the moon

  • Project Apollo

    Final step in U.S. bringing man to moon

  • Pioneer 10

    sent back photos of Jupiter-first probe to encounter an outer planet

  • Voyager

    Another space probe that reaches the outer edges of the solar system

  • Viking 1

    Orbiter mapped the surface of Mars; lander searched for life on Mars

  • Venera

    Soviet probe to study the surface of Venus

  • Magellan

    Mapped Venus's surface and returned data on the composition of Venus's atmosphere

  • Voyager 2

    It studied the outer planets

  • Galileo

    sent back pictures of Europa and Io, two of Jupiters 61 moons