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Space Race

By Preeti517
  • Fruit flies: first american animal in space

    Fruit flies: first american animal in space

    The United States put fruit flies aboard captured German V-2 rockets to study radiation exposure at high altitudes.
  • Sputnik: USSR launched first satellite

    Sputnik: USSR launched first satellite

    The USSR launched Sputnik 1 and it starts it's orbit around the earth.
  • Laika: first soviet animal in space

    Laika: first soviet animal in space

    Laika was a Soviet space dog who became one of the first animals in space, and the first animal to orbit the Earth.
  • Explorer 1: first american satellite in space

    Explorer 1: first american satellite in space

    First satellite of the united states.
  • Luna 2: USSR's space craft lands on the moon

    Luna 2: USSR's space craft lands on the moon

    The first human-made object to reach the surface of the Moon was the Soviet Union's Luna 2 mission.
  • Yuri Gagarin: first human in space

    Yuri Gagarin: first human in space

    He was the first human to journey into outer space when his Vostok spacecraft completed an orbit of the Earth.
  • Alan Shepard: first american in space

    Alan Shepard: first american in space

    Alan Shepard became the first American in space when the Freedom 7 spacecraft blasted off from Florida.
  • Valentina Tereshkova: first woman in space

    Valentina Tereshkova: first woman in space

    She is the first woman to have flown in space, having been selected from more than 400 applicants and five finalists to pilot Vostok 6. (USSR)
  • First space walk: USSR Alexei Leonov

    First space walk: USSR Alexei Leonov

    Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov made the first spacewalk in history.
  • First american space walk: Ed White

    First american space walk: Ed White

    On the Gemini 4 Mission, Ed White conducted the first american spacewallk.
  • Apollo 11: men on the moon

    Apollo 11: men on the moon

    Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that landed the first two humans: Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the Moon.
  • Skylab: America's First space station

    Skylab: America's First space station

    A Saturn V rocket launched into space with an important mission: putting Skylab, the first US space station, into orbit.
  • Sally Ride: first USA woman in space

    Sally Ride: first USA woman in space

    Sally Ride became the first American woman to fly in space when the space shuttle Challenger launched.
  • First space station: Salyut 1

    First space station: Salyut 1

    Salyut 1 launched unmanned from the Soviet Union, and it was the first space station launched by the USSR.