Space Race By JaxonPlays 1942 The first rocket called the V2 is launched. 1947 Fruit flies are sent to space. 1949 Albert the monkey is sent to space. 1957 Laika the dog is sent to space. 1957 The first satellite, Sputnik is sent to space. 1961 Yuri Gagarin is the first man in space. 1963 Valentina Tereshkova is the first woman in space. 1969 Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin land on the moon. 1973 A Russian probe is sent to Mars. 1981 The Space Shuttle launches into flights occurring from 1981 to 2011. 1990 The Hubble telescope is launched into a low Earth orbit. 1991 Helen Sharman is the first British astronaut in space. 1992 Mae Jemison was the first African-American woman to travel into Space. 1998 The International Space Station is launched into orbit in 1998. 2001 Dennis Tito is the first space tourist. 2004 The first private space flights are available. 2015 Tim Peake becomes the first British ESA Astronaut to visit the International Space Station. 2016 Astronaut Peggy Whitson broke the US record for longest overall time in Space with 665 days in orbit. 2019 China’s Chang’e 4 explorer became the first spacecraft to successfully land on the far side of the Moon. 2020 SpaceX Dragon flew astronauts to and from the International Space Station. 2021 NASA successfully lands the Perseverance rover on Mars and begins exploration.
