Space Race

By Afnan A.
  • Luna 1

    Luna 1

    Plan was to hit the moon - missed and flew by
  • Vostok 1

    Vostok 1

    First person in space - Yuri Gagarin
  • Mercury-Redstone 3 (Freedom 7) (MR-3)

    Mercury-Redstone 3 (Freedom 7) (MR-3)

    First US person in space - Alan Shepard
  • Vostok 2

    Vostok 2

    First flight more than 24 hours - Gherman Titov
  • Vostok 5

    Vostok 5

    First long-duration mission - Valery Bykovsky
  • Vostok 6

    Vostok 6

    First woman in space - Valentina Tereshkova
  • Voskhod 2

    Voskhod 2

    First space walk - Aleksei Leonov & Pavel Belyayev
  • Apollo 8

    Apollo 8

    First people to orbit the moon - Frank Borman, James Lovell & William Anders
  • Apollo 11

    Apollo 11

    First people to land on the moon - Neil Armstrong & Buzz Aldrin