Space Race-AP6

USSR launches Sputnik 1

Oct 4, 1957

The Sputnik 1 spurred US to launch its own satelites and begin explorationin earnest. It also marked the begging of the competition between the US and the USSR to have dominance

Space Race-AP6

Period: Oct 4, 1957 to Jul 20, 1969

Explorer 1 is launched

Jan 31, 1958

When Explorer 1 was launched it helped the US descover space but the USSR was in the lead on the Space Race and US need to do somthing big.

Tiros 1 is the first weather satellite.

Apr 1, 1960

Tiros 1 helped the US with it's weather problems, also somthing the USSR didn't have to prepare for storms

Yuri Gagarin becomes first person in space.

Apr 14, 1961

USSR has a big lead with them sending the first man into space and also makeing him orbit the Earth

L.Gorden last American to fly alone in space

May 15, 1963

America has just realized that the more experienced are better at flying the rocketship.

Ranger 7 transmits the first close range images of the moon

Jul 31, 1964

US just had a close range image of the moon USSR haven't came close to the moon and we had just pulled threw Kennedy being assassinated.

Ed WHite performs America's first sapce walk

Jun 3, 1965

This helped the US, this gave them cpurge, strenght, anf that they could go to the moon!!!

Luna 9 becomes the first spacecraft to land softly on the moon.

Feb 3, 1966

This helped the USSR catch up to the US by landing on the moon it proves that they are not out of the "Game" just yet.

Lunar Orbiter 1 enters orbit around the moon and takes a picture of the Earth

Aug 14, 1966

This didn't realy help the US to much besides showing the US citizens what the earth looked like from afar.

Neil Armstrong and Edwin "buzz" Aldrin became the first men to walk on the moon

Sep 24, 2015

This helped the US win the cold war and it also helped us byt letting us study the surface of the moon.