space race

space race

Period: Sep 23, 1957 to Sep 23, 1962

soviets lanch sputnik I

Oct 4, 1957

soviets lanch sputnik I

USSR lanches sputnik 2

Nov 3, 1957

Sputnik 2 caryed a dog named laika who died when the nose of the rocket got to hot.

U.S lanches explorer 1

Jan 31, 1958

explorer 2 is lanched but fails to reach orbit

Mar 5, 1958

vangared 1 is lanched

Mar 17, 1958

sputnik 3 is lanched

May 15, 1958

NASA is created

Oct 1, 1958

pioneer 1 is lanched

Oct 11, 1958

USSR lanches luna 1

Jan 2, 1959

first man made object to orbit the sun

pioneer 4 is lanched trying to reach the moon

Mar 3, 1959

it came withen 37000 miles of the moon

luna 2 is lanched

Sep 12, 1959

it hits the moon!

luna 3 is lanched

Oct 4, 1959

takes pictures of 70% of the moon

tiros 1 is lanched by U.S

Apr 1, 1960

U.S lanches discoverey XIV

Oct 18, 1960

Yuri gagaran is the first man in space

Apr 12, 1961

Alan.B shepard is first American in space

May 5, 1961

NASA announces the Gemini program

Dec 7, 1961

USSR lanches first woman in space

Jun 16, 1963

USSR makes first space walk

Mar 18, 1965

Luna 9 is the first space craft to soft land on the moon

Feb 3, 1966

astranauts are killed by fire in lanch pad teast

Jan 27, 1967

U.S makes the first man to walk on the moon

Jul 20, 1969

U.S and USSR work togeather to put russan on moon

Sep 25, 1969