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Creation of NASA
a civilian agency responsible for coordinating America's activities in space -
First satellite in space by USSR
The world's first artificial satellite was about the size of a beach ball -
First animal in space by USSR
the second-ever orbiting spacecraft carried the first animal into orbit, the dog Laika, launched aboard the Soviet Sputnik 2 spacecraft -
First satellite in space by USA
The first successful satellite. -
First animal in space by USA
Ham the chimp, was the first animal to be put into space by the USA -
First man in space by USSR
Yuri Gagarin was the first person to fly in space. His flight, on April 12, 1961, lasted 108 minutes -
First man to orbit Earth by USSR
On April 12, 1961, aboard the spacecraft Vostok 1, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin becomes the first human being to travel into space. -
First man in space by USA
Alan Shepard became the first American in space -
JFK's speech and commitment to getting to the moon
President John F. Kennedy announced before a special joint session of Congress the dramatic and ambitious goal of sending an American safely to the Moon before the end of the decade. -
First man to orbit Earth by USA
On February 20, 1962, Glenn flew the Friendship 7 mission, becoming the first American to orbit the Earth, -
First man to do an EVA by USSR
The first EVA was performed on March 18, 1965, by Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov -
First man to do an EVA by USA
Ed White during his Gemini IV spacewalk -
first American spacewalk.
First American Spacewalk. During the Gemini 4 mission on June 3, 1965, Ed White became the first American to conduct a spacewalk. -
Gemini 5
Launch of Gemini 5, carrying astronauts Gordon Cooper and Charles Conrad on an eight-day mission to test rendezvous guidance and navigation systems, -
Nasa fire
Seventeen astronauts were lost in the Apollo 1 fire -
Apollo 8
Apollo 8 was the first crewed spacecraft to leave low Earth orbit and the first to reach the Moon, orbit it, and return -
Launch of Friendship 7
makes astronaut John Glenn the first American to go into orbit. Total flight time was just shy of five hours.
