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sulvit untion was to show that the anamation
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USSR launches spudnik 2 that carried a small dog named Lika that sadly didn't make it back in the launcher the reasoing for this is to see if a mammal could survive
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explorer 2 is launched but never orbited and it was the beginning of the cold war between the amercains and the Russians
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the Pioneer 1 was first launched at NASA at 70,700 miles
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First Americans in space and the astrounts are sleceted by NASA and are sent up in space.
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JFK addressed Congress and Challenges the VS to go to the moon before the end of the decade.
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Saturn 1 the rocket was tested and was sent up in space.
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John Glenn was launched in the Friendship 7 and it orbited.
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John Glenn orbited the Earth 3 times in 4 hours and 56 minutes, in 1988 at the age of 77,John Glenn, was the oldest human to orbit the Earth
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Luna 9 was the first spacecraft to softly land on the moon and transmit photographic data to earth.
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Neil Armstrong "Buzz" Alrin both went to the moon and walked on the surface while Michael Collins orbited around the moon alone.