Sputnik 1

Space Race

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  • German V-2

    German V-2
    This is the first object to officially make it into space
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    Space

  • First Animals in Space

    First Animals in Space
    Fruit Flies traveled into Space
  • First ICBM

    First ICBM
    First Inter Continental Balistic Missile, Soviets
  • Sputnik 1

    Sputnik 1
    First Man Made Satellite in Space, marks the start of the US/USSR space race
  • Sputnik 2

    Sputnik 2
    First satellite to have a mamel in it, a Dog
  • Explorer 1

    Explorer 1
    First American Satellite
  • MR2

    MR2
    Mercury Redstone 2, first homonide (chimpanze) in Space US
  • First Human in Space

    First Human in Space
    Yuri Gagarin, in the Vostok 1 USSR
  • First American in Space

    First American in Space
    John Glenn became the the first American in Space on the Friendship 7
  • First Woman in Space

    First Woman in Space
    Valentina Tereshkova became the first Woman in Space on the Vostok 6
  • First Soft Landing on the Moon

    First Soft Landing on the Moon
    The Soviet's Luna 9 was the first spacecraft to land on the moon
  • Apollo 11

    Apollo 11
    First landing on the moon, first human to walk on the moon
  • First Lunar Rover

    First Lunar Rover
    Lunokhod, was the first ever lunar , USSR
  • Venus Landing

    Venus Landing
    Venera 7, was the first ever object to land on Venus
  • First Space Station

    First Space Station
    USSR on the Salyut 1
  • Mars Landing

    Mars Landing
    First successful landing on Mars, signals from its surface, Mars 3 USSR
  • First Multinational Mission

    First Multinational Mission
    Both Astronauts and Cosmonauts participated on the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project
  • Space Shuttle

    Space Shuttle
    First Space Shuttle Launch (Unknown Date)
  • Beyond Neptune

    Beyond Neptune
    The Pioneer 10 was the first spacecraft that went past Neptune.
  • Radio Orbital Center

    Radio Orbital Center
    Russa sent up the largest space observatory ever bult, the Radio Astron