Space Race

First Atomic Bomb

Jul 16, 1945

Atomic bomb in Japan

Aug 6, 1945

Bye Bye People

Development of Soviet Nukes

Aug 29, 1949

First Hydrogen Bomb

Nov 1, 1952

Development of first US ICBM

Jun 6, 1957

Sputnik 1

Oct 4, 1957

USSR launches first ever satellite.

Space Race

Period: Oct 4, 1957 to Jul 20, 1969

Sputnik 2

Nov 3, 1957

USSR launches the first dog, Laika, into space.

Explorer 1

Jan 31, 1958

First American Satellite.

NASA

Oct 1, 1958

NASA was formed.

Luna 1

Jan 2, 1959

First man made object to orbit the sun.

The Mercury 7

Apr 2, 1959

NASA choose the first astronauts.

Luna 3

Oct 4, 1959

Photographed 70% of the moon

Tiros 1

Apr 1, 1960

First successful weather satellite.

Yuri

Apr 12, 1961

Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man in space.

Alan

May 5, 1961

Alan Shepard becomes the first american in space.

Cosmonaut Valentina

Jun 16, 1963

First Women in space.

Spacewalk

Mar 18, 1965

Alexei Leonov has the firs space walk for 12 min.

Mariner 4

Jul 14, 1965

Returns with close range images of mars.

Luna 9

Feb 3, 1966

First spacecraft to soft land on the moon.

Luna 10

Apr 3, 1966

First spacecraft to orbit the moon.

Surveyor 1

Jun 2, 1966

First US spacecraft to soft land on moon

Lunar Orbiter 1

Aug 14, 1966

First picture of the earth from a distance

Venera 4

Oct 18, 1967

Transmitted data from the atmosphere of Venus

Zond 5

Jan 16, 1969

USSR launches a biological pay load including two turtles.

Moon Landing

Jul 20, 1969

First man on the moon