Space Race

By alex.serrano3288

  • soviet unions launch sputnik

    1st artificial earth satellite

  • Luna 2 probe reaches the moon

    Sept 14, Luna 2 crashed onto the surface of the moon becoming the first man made object to reach it

  • First human orbits Earth (Yuri Gagarin)

    1st to journey into outer space

  • First woman in space (Valentina Tereshkova)

    selected from more then four hundred applicants and five finalists to pilot Vostok 6

  • Venera 7 lands on venus

    first space craft to land on another planet and first to transmit data from there back to earth

  • First manned space station; Mars 3 drops capsule on Mars

    space station that belonged to the soviets