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Lau Hirsch Space Race

By MistyHirsch
  • First Animal Launched Into Space

    First Animal Launched Into Space

    The Soviet Union Laika, a dog, into space for the very first time. She was the first living creature to ever go into space. Althought she survived the launch, she died a few hours later.
  • First Successful American Satellite

    First Successful American Satellite

    America's Explorer I satellite was successfully launched from Cape Canaveral. The data that the satellite gathered proved the existence of a radiation belt girdling the Earth.
  • NASA Signed Ito Law

    NASA Signed Ito Law

    President Lyndon B Johnson wrote the Natioanl Aeronautics and Space Act.
  • NASA Begins Operations

    NASA Begins Operations

    NASA began operations for the United States space exploration program and formally opened for business.
  • Tiros 1 Launched

    Tiros 1 Launched

    The United States launches Tiros 1, the first successful weather satellite
  • First Human In Space

    First Human In Space

    The Soviet Union launched Yuri A Gargarin on a 108-minute flight.
  • First American In Space

    First American In Space

    The US launched Alan Shepard on a 15-minute suborbital flight. This was the first spacecraft that contained an American.
  • First Space Walk

    First Space Walk

    Russian Astronaut Alexi Leonov exits his capsul for a 12-minute spacewalk.
  • U.S. Space Tragedy

    U.S. Space Tragedy

    When preparing for an Apollo launch a fire broke out in a routine ground test and killed three astronauts.
  • First Manned Moon Landing

    First Manned Moon Landing

    Apollo 11, also known as the Eagle, landed on the moon. Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin Jr were aboard the spacecraft.
  • First Manned Moon Landing

    First Manned Moon Landing

    Apollo 11 lands on the moon, where Neil Armstrong and Edward Aldrin Jr. walk on the moon's surface. Armstrong says, "That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind."
  • First Space Station

    First Space Station

    The Soviet union launched Salyut 1, the first space station.
  • First Rover on the Moon

    First Rover on the Moon

    Apollo 15 carried the first rover to the moon. The rover could carry two astronauts and supplies.
  • First U.S. Space Station

    First U.S. Space Station

    The first U.S. space station, Skylab, is launched and will be occupied by three crews for a few years.
  • First US Mars Landing

    First US Mars Landing

    Viking 1 soft-lands on Mars.
  • Pioneer 11 Reaches Saturn

    Pioneer 11 Reaches Saturn

    Pioneer 11 reaches Saturn and takes up close photographs
  • First American Woman In Space

    First American Woman In Space

    Sally K. Ride becomes the first American woman to enter space. She goes on the space shuttle named Challenger to launch into space.
  • First Untethered Spacewalk

    First Untethered Spacewalk

    Bruce McCandless was abored the Challenger for NASA's first untethered spacewalk.
  • The Space Shuttle Challenger Explodes

    The Space Shuttle Challenger Explodes

    The Challenger explosion resulted in seven dead astronauts. It was seen on live television and exploded 73 seconds after it lifted off.
  • Hubble Space Telescope Deplpoyed

    Hubble Space Telescope Deplpoyed

    The 12-ton Hubble Space Telescope was deployed April 25, 1990.