Space race

By jimmyscl

  • V2 rocket

    From Germany durin WW2

  • The world's first artificial satellite

    The Sputnik 1 satellite was launched by the USSR

  • First creatures to return alive from space

    Two monkeys, Able and Baker, became the first living creatures to survive a space flight they were launched into space by the US on a Jupiter missile.
  • First Humanoid animal, Ham, (chimpanzee) in Space

    First Humanoid animal, Ham, (chimpanzee) in Space

  • The first man in space

    The USSR sent Yuri Gagarin into space from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan, in a Vostok spacecraft. He made a single orbit of Earth in 108 minutes, travelling at more than 17,000 miles per hour.

  • The first space station is launched

    Russia launched Salyut, the first space station.
  • First spacecraft to impact the far side of the Moon.

    First spacecraft to impact the far side of the Moon.

  • The first woman in space

    Valentina Tereshkova, a former textile worker, became the first woman to be launched into space by the Soviet Union.

  • First spacewalk

    Rusia

  • 1st maned flight of project Gemini

    Gemini III

  • Zond 3 Lunar Flyby

  • First Space Rendezvous Project Gemini,Gemini VI & VII

    USA

  • First Spacecraft to Impact on Another Planet

  • First American Spacecraft to Land on the Moon

  • 1st American Space tragedy

    Apolo I, USA

  • First Spaceflight Fatality, Soyuz 1, Vladimir Komarov,

  • First Spacecraft to Orbit the Moon and Return

    URSS

  • First Manned Apollo Mission, Apollo VII

  • First Manned Moon Orbit Project Apollo, VIII

  • First man on the Moon

    American Neil Armstrong became the first man to set foot on the Moon. Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin spent two hours on the lunar surface setting up observation equipment and collecting rock samples. As Armstrong put his left foot down, he famously declared: "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."

  • Crewed Lunar Orbiter Project Apollo, Apollo X

  • 2nd Landing in the moon

    Apollo XII, by USA

  • First precisely targeted piloted landing on the Moon

  • Apollo 13 failure

  • voyager 1

  • 'Free-flying' in space

    Bruce McCandless became the first person to do a spacewalk without being attached to the spacecraft.

  • The space shuttle Challenger disaster

  • Launch of the Hubble Space Telescope

  • Mars Pathfinder

  • The fist pieces of the International Space Station

    left Earth in the fall of 1998

  • Assembly of ISS begins

    Assembly of the ISS began with the launch of its first module, Zarya, on a Proton rocket from Baikonur. The ISS is the largest artificial body in space.

  • First space tourist

    Dennis Tito, a billionaire businessman from California, became the first paying passenger to go to outer space.

  • Spacial spacecraft tragedy on Columbia

  • Kepler Mission

  • Cassini-Huygens