Timeline: Space Race ☆. Badillo Estrada Stephany

Oct 4, 1957

Sputnik

The Soviet union launched Sputnik 1, which at 83 kilograms and about the size of a basketball, became the world’s first artificial satellite and the first man-made object to be placed into the Earth’s orbit.

Nov 3, 1957

Laika

Laika was the first animal to travel into space aboard Sputnik 2. A week after the launch the dog died due to lack of oxygen.

Oct 7, 1959

The first image of the far side of the moon.

The Soviet satellite luna 3 took the first images of the far side of the moon.

Apr 14, 1963

The first man on the space

Aoard Vostok 1, Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was the first human to travel into outer space.

Jun 16, 1963

The first woman on the space.

Aboard Vostok 6, Valentina Tereshkova was the first woman to travel into space on a 3-day mission, during which she completed 48 orbits around the earth.

Dec 21, 1968

Apollo 8 and the far side of the moon.

The first manned space flight around the moon took place. It is also the first human space flight to enter into the gravitational influence of another celestial body. Its crew was the first in history to see the far side of the moon, as well as the first to observe the earth from our satellite.

Jul 16, 1969

The arrival of the man to the moon.

U.S. astronauts Neil Armstrong, Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin and Michael Collins set off on the Apollo 11 space mission, the first lunar landing attempt. After landing successfully on July 20, Armstrong became the first man to walk on the moon’s surface; he famously called the moment “one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.”

Jul 16, 1975

The end of the cold war.

The soyuz and Apollo 18 spacecraft docked in earth's orbit. It was the first joint mission of the space agencies of both countries. Historians agree that this event ended the cold war.