Space Race-HL1

By long93
  • launch of spuninck 1

    launch of spuninck 1

    This began the competetion agianst the US and ussr to have doments.
  • First Animal in Space

    First Animal in Space

    The Soviet Union launches a female dog. She was the first mammal successfully recovered from spaceflight.
  • Pioneer 1

    Pioneer 1

    launched to a hight of 70,700 miles.First spacecraft
    launched by the 11day old national aeronautics and
    spce administration.
  • First American in space

    First American in space

    Alan B. Shepard becomes the first American in space. It made the people of the US know that we are making progress.
  • John Glenn orbits the Earth

    John Glenn orbits the Earth

    Circles Earth three times in 4 hours and 56 minutes. He followed two Russian cosmonauts in making this early orbit of our plane
  • First Woman in Space

    First Woman in Space

    Valentina Tereshkova on Vostok 6. She spends three days alone in space. Her spacecraft comes within three miles of Valeri Bykovsky in Vostok 5.
  • L. Gordon Cooper spends 34 hours in space.

    L. Gordon Cooper spends 34 hours in space.

    He is the last American to fly in space alone.
  • First Space Walk

    First Space Walk

    Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov takes the first space walk,
    a ten-minute tethered excursion outside Voshkod 2
  • Lunar Orbiter 1

    Lunar Orbiter 1

    Enters orbit around the Moon and takes the first
    picture of the Earth from that distance.
  • Neil Armstrong and EdwinBuzz Aldrin

    Neil Armstrong and EdwinBuzz Aldrin

    First men to walk on the Moon while crewmate Michael
    Collins orbits around the Moon alone.