Space Race

German V-2

Oct 3, 1942

This is the first object to officially make it into space

Space

Period: Oct 3, 1942 to Aug 25, 2013

First Animals in Space

Feb 20, 1947

Fruit Flies traveled into Space

First ICBM

Aug 21, 1957

First Inter Continental Balistic Missile, Soviets

Sputnik 1

Oct 4, 1957

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

Sputnik 2

Nov 3, 1957

First satellite to have a mamel in it, a Dog

Explorer 1

Jan 31, 1958

First American Satellite

MR2

Jan 13, 1961

Mercury Redstone 2, first homonide (chimpanze) in Space US

First Human in Space

Apr 12, 1961

Yuri Gagarin, in the Vostok 1 USSR

First American in Space

Feb 20, 1962

John Glenn became the the first American in Space on the Friendship 7

First Woman in Space

Jun 16, 1963

Valentina Tereshkova became the first Woman in Space on the Vostok 6

First Soft Landing on the Moon

Feb 3, 1966

The Soviet's Luna 9 was the first spacecraft to land on the moon

Apollo 11

Jul 21, 1969

First landing on the moon, first human to walk on the moon

First Lunar Rover

Nov 23, 1970

Lunokhod, was the first ever lunar , USSR

Venus Landing

Dec 15, 1970

Venera 7, was the first ever object to land on Venus

First Space Station

Apr 23, 1971

USSR on the Salyut 1

Mars Landing

Dec 2, 1971

First successful landing on Mars, signals from its surface, Mars 3 USSR

First Multinational Mission

Jul 15, 1975

Both Astronauts and Cosmonauts participated on the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project

Space Shuttle

Jan 1, 1981

First Space Shuttle Launch (Unknown Date)

Beyond Neptune

Jun 13, 1983

The Pioneer 10 was the first spacecraft that went past Neptune.

Radio Orbital Center

Jul 18, 2011

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