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The Russians sent a satelite into space and it freaked Americans out because they weren't sure what it was.
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Sputnik 2 was the second spacecraft launched into Earth orbit, on November 3, 1957, and the first to carry a living animal, a dog named Laika. Who died because of heat and stress.
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Detection of Van Allen belts, which is a torus of energetic charged particles around Earth, which is held in place by Earth's magnetic field.
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The weather satellite is a type of satellite that is primarily used to monitor the weather and climate of the Earth. And we put it up there.
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Yuri Gagarin was a Soviet Pilote and Cosmonaut. And he was the first person in space
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Alouette 1 was Canada's first satellite, and the first satellite constructed by a country other than the USSR or the United States.
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Valentina Tereshkova was a Soviet Cosmonaut, and the first woman in space.
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Rendezvous was first successfully accomplished by US astronaut Wally Schirra on December 15, 1965, who maneuvered the Gemini 6A spacecraft within 1 foot of its sister craft Gemini 7.
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The Russians sent a probe that landed on venus.
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Gemini 8, under the command of Neil Armstrong, rendezvoused and docked with an unmanned Agena Target Vehicle.
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The first to be captured by and escape from the gravitational field of another celestial body; and the first crewed voyage to return to Earth from another celestial body
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Americans beat Russians to the moon.
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Salyut 1 was the first space station of any kind, launched by the USSR.
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The Anik satellites are geostationary communications satellites launched by Telesat Canada for television in Canada. And the Canadians sent it up.
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Eleventh and final manned mission in the American Apollo space program.
