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USSR launches Sputnik 1.
The launch of Sputnik 1 spurred the US to launch its own one. -
1st successful weather satellite
It lets us take data and learn more about space, the iniformation gave us more ideas witch let us have the adavntge of space. -
Alan B. Shepard becomes the first american in space.
While Alan B was in space he collected data helped us figure out more things about travling in space. -
President Kennedy gives a speech about the moon program.
The President spoke in philosophical terms about the need to solve the mysteries of space, eaffirmed America's commitment to landing a man on the moon before the end of the 1960s and also defended the enormous xpense of the space program. -
Ed white performs the first Ed white performs the first
Its important because he was the first american to accomplish spacewalk. -
Venus 3 is launched
Its important be cause it was the first man made objected to impact venus. Since it was the 1st they got alot of data and was ahead of us. -
Lunar Orbiter 1 enters orbit around the Moon and takes the first picture of the Earth from that distance.
The unmanned NASA spacecraft was primarily built to photograph smooth areas of the lunar surface for selection and verification of safe landing sites for the Surveyor and Apollo missions. -
Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee are killed when a fire ignites in their Apollo 1 capsule while performing a test.
Apollo 1 was to be the first manned mission and, although it would not travel to the moon itself, it was intended to test important technologies in Earth orbit with Virgil “Gus” Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee on board. -
The crew of Apollo 7 begin a day mission to study the new spacecraft.
Its important because it lead us to the first man to the first man to walk on the moon. -
Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin become the first men to walk on the Moon while crewmate Michael Collins orbits around the Moon alone.
Americans became the first people to walk on the moon witch means we one the Space Race,