Space race

Trinity nuclear test

Jul 16, 1945

blew up a bomb in Mexico to test that the fat man would be like

Japan bombing

Aug 6, 1945

America dropped the first released atomic bomb on japan

first hydrogen bomb

Nov 1, 1952

first hydrogen bomb tested in Marshall islands

R-7 semyorka

Aug 21, 1957

first intercontinental missile

Sputnik 1

Oct 4, 1957

First artificial satellite

Sputnik 2

Nov 3, 1957

First dog to orbit the earth

explorer 1

Jan 31, 1958

discovered the van allen radiation belt

Vangaurd 1 NRL

Mar 17, 1958

first solar powered satellite

Luna 2

1959

first probe to hit moon

Luna 3

Oct 7, 1959

first photos of the far side of the moon

tiros 1

Apr 1, 1960

first weather imaging satellite

sputnik 5

Aug 19, 1960

first animals returned alive from space

vostok 1

Apr 12, 1961

carried first human to space

freedom 7

May 5, 1961

first complete human space flight

venera 1

May 19, 1961

first fly by of Venus

Ranger 4

Apr 26, 1962

first spacecraft to impact the far side of the moon

mariner 4

Jul 14, 1965

first mars fly by

venera 3

Mar 1, 1966

first impact with venus

apollo 8

Jan 16, 1968

first human space flight that escaped earths influence

apollo 11

Jul 16, 1969

first ever moon walk

First ICBM

1970

intercontinental ballistic missile

apollo 13

Apr 11, 1970

crew survived an oxygen explosion

luna 16

Sep 24, 1970

first robotic automatic sample return from the moon

mars 2

Nov 27, 1971

first impact to mars