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First American Animals In Space
A rhesus monkey called Albert 1 became the first American monkey or non insect launched into space on June 11, 1948. Fruit flies aboard a U.S.-launched V-2 rocket on 20 February 1947 from White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico -
Sputnik I
Sputnik I was the first man-made satellite to orbit the Earth. -
Sputnik 2
Sputnik 2 or Prosteyshiy Sputnik 2 was the second spacecraft launched into Earth orbit, on 3 November 1957, and the first to carry a living animal, a Soviet space dog named Laika, who died a few hours after the launch. Launched by the U.S.S.R. -
Explorer I
The Explorer I was the first American satellite to ever orbit the Earth. Even though the USA was leading on space development, They still came second on putting a satellite in space. -
First Soviet Non Human Moon Landing
The first human-made object to reach the surface of the Moon was the Soviet Union's Luna 2 mission, on 13 September 1959. -
First Soviet In Space
On 12 April 1961, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human to travel into space when he launched into orbit on the Vostok 3KA-3 spacecraft (Vostok 1). -
First American In Space
On May 5, 1961, Alan Shepard became the first American in space. He flew on a Mercury spacecraft. There was just enough room for one person. He named his capsule Freedom 7. -
First Soviet Woman in Space
Soviet cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman to fly to space when she launched on the Vostok 6 mission June 16, 1963. In 1963, she spent almost three days in space and orbited Earth 48 times in her space capsule, Vostok 6 -
First American Human Moon Landing
Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that landed the first two humans on the Moon. Mission commander Neil Armstrong and pilot Buzz Aldrin, both American, landed the lunar module Eagle on July 20, 1969, at 20:18 UTC, became the first American moon landing -
First American Space Station
January 1, 1970. The launch of Skylab, America's first space station, on board a modified Saturn V rocket from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Fla. on May 14, 1973, marked a new phase for American's human space flight program -
First American Woman In Space
Sally Ride became the first American woman to go into space when she flew on the space shuttle Challenger on June 18, 1983. She made two shuttle flights, and later became a champion for science education and a role model for generations. -
First Soviet Space Station
In 1986, the Soviet Union launched the first components of the space station Mir, which was assembled in orbit over the course of a decade. Considerably larger than Salyut 1, Mir was just over 60 feet (19 meters) long and 100 feet (31 meters) wide.
