-
-
The Soviet Union launched the first satellite (Sputnik 1) the size of a beach ball to kick off the Space Race against the United States of America.
-
-
One month after Sputnik 1 was launched into space, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 2 into space.
-
Laika was the first living animal launched into space in a V-2 rocket.
-
Yuri Gagarin was the first man ever tp enter space. He was in an orbital flight for 108 minutes.
-
Enos,(the chimp) was the first animal of any kind to orbit the earth and return safely to the earth.
-
John Glenn became the first man to orbit the Earth, and just the 5th person in space behind Alan Shepard, Gus Grissom of America and Yuri Gagarin and Gherman Titov of the Soviet Union.
-
In 1963 the U.S started the Apollo program, which was designed to launch people into space and return them safely to Earth.
-
Valentina Tereshkova of the Soviet Union was the first woman ever to have flown in space. She was one of the selected few to orbit the Earth.
-
Neil Armstrong of America became the very first man ever to walk on the moon. Giving the U.S the Space Race win over the Soviet Union.
-
After the U.S won the space race, the Soviet Union agreed to work together in space technologies.
