Space Race-JE hour 1

Launch of Sputnik 1

Oct 4, 1957

www.spacerace.com/timeline/Why is this event important to space exploration?
The Launch of Sputnik 1 was important because

it spurred the US to launch its own satellites.
This began the completion between the US and the
VSSR to have domonance in space

Launch of Sputnik 2 which carried a small dog

Nov 3, 1957

http://teacher.scholastic.com/space/space_firsts/index.htm It told the world that a living being can survive in
space

Launch of explorer 1

Jan 31, 1958

https://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/explorer/explorer-overview.html The US's start in the spacerace

Launch of Luna 1

Jan 2, 1959

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraftDisplay.do?id=1959-012AThe first man made object to orbit the sun

Yuri Gagarin orbits the Earth once

Apr 12, 1961

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/shuttle/sts1/gagarin_anniversary.html The first man in space and the first man to orbit the Earth
once

Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space

Jun 16, 1963

https://www.nasa.gov/topics/history/features/ride_anniversary.htmlHuman spaceflight during the early years of the space race was the province of men.

Luna 9 soft-land on the Moon.

Feb 3, 1966

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraftDisplay.do?id=1966-006AFirst spacecraft to soft land on the moon.

Surveyor 1 soft-lands on the Moon.

Jun 21, 1966

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraftDisplay.do?id=1966-045AFirst american spacecraft to soft land the moon.

Lunar Orbiter 1 enters orbit around the Moon and takes the first picture of the Earth from that distance.

Aug 14, 1966

https://www.emaze.com/@ALRIFQOF/SPACE-RACELunar Orbiter 1 was a big thing because it was important
to know what the Earth looked like

Apollo 7 lands on the moon

Jul 20, 1969

http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/missions/apollo7.htmlAmerica wins the space race; and was the first men to walk the suface of the Moon.