Space race- Lindsay L

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  • First satellite in space by USSR

    First satellite in space by USSR

    the Soviet Union launched the earth's first artificial satellite, Sputnik I.
  • First animal in space by USSR

    First animal in space by USSR

    the second-ever orbiting spacecraft carried the first animal into orbit, the dog Laika, launched aboard the Soviet Sputnik 2 spacecraft.
  • First satellite in space by USA

    First satellite in space by USA

    Explorer 1 was the first satellite launched by the United States in 1958 and was part of the U.S. participation in the International Geophysical Year.
  • Creation of NASA

    Creation of NASA

    President Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act of 1958 establishing the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.
  • First animal in space by USA (Ham the chimp)

    First animal in space by USA (Ham the chimp)

    Ham made a publicity splash after NASA stipulated his short, suborbital trip, which NASA required before the United States could put its first person in space.
  • First man in space by USSR

    First man in space by USSR

    Yuri Gagarin, , Soviet cosmonaut who in 1961 became the first man to travel into space.
  • First man in space by USA

    First man in space by USA

    U.S. Navy test pilot Alan Shepard joined the astronaut program in 1959. He became the first American and the second man in space
  • First man to orbit Earth by USA

    First man to orbit Earth by USA

    John H. Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth during the three-orbit Mercury-Atlas 6 mission,
  • JFK's speech and commitment to getting to the moon

    JFK's speech and commitment to getting to the moon

    speech by United States President John F. Kennedy to bolster public support for his proposal to land a man on the Moon before 1970.
  • First man to do an EVA by USSR

    First man to do an EVA by USSR

    The first EVA was performed on March 18, 1965, by Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, who spent 12 minutes and 9 seconds outside the Voskhod 2 spacecraft.
  • First man to do an EVA by USA

    First man to do an EVA by USA

    US astronaut Edward White (1930–67) was the first American to perform an “extra-vehicular activity” (EVA), or spacewalk. On June 3, 1965, White opened the hatch of his Gemini 4 spacecraft and pulled himself out into space.