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Space Race
This is mine and KeniBears Space race which has all the detals from 1960 till now ... -
The first navigational satellite was launched into Earth's orbit.
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First primate in Space.
The first primate in Space was a Chimpanzee so called 'Ham.'
He travelled for 16 minutes aboard the Mecury-Redstone rocket. -
Sputnik 9
Sputnik 9 was launched with a dog named chernushka (Blackie) on a one orbit mission. Also onboard the spacecraft were, mice and a Guinea Pig. -
Alan Shepherd - First man in space.
Alan Sherherd was the first man in Space. He was the piolot for the Mercury mission. -
'Race To The Moon'
President John.F.Kennedy summond a joint session of congress and asked the nation to work toward putting a man on the moon by the end of the decade. -
Saturn launch
The first Saturn launch veichle made an un-manned flight test -
Crash landing
U.S Ranger spacecraft crash landed on the moon. -
Crash on the moon.
The Ranger 8 spacecraft crash on the moon after sending back 7,000 photo's of the Lunal surface. -
8 Day's in Space...
Gemini 5, carrying astronauts Gordon Cooper and Charles ("Pete") Conrad, splashed down in the Atlantic after 8 days in space. -
Cape Canaveral.
Apollo 5 was launched to the moon from Cape Canaveral, Florida. -
NEIL ARMSTRONG NEARLY KILLED!!
Neil Armstrong was nearly killed in a lunar module trainer accident. -
One small step for man, One giant leap for mankind..
On this day Buzz Aldrin, and Neil Armstrong travelled to the moon. Where they made the first step on the moon. They travelled there in Apollo 11. -
Back to Earth.
Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin blasted off from the moon aboard the Lunar module. -
Venus landing
Venera 7 was launched by USSR for a soft landing on Venus. -
Fly by
US Mariner 10 made a 2nd fly by of Mercury. -
First clostest approach to Jupiter.
Pioneer 2 made it's closest approach to Jupiter. -
Fallen satellite.
Cosmos, A soviet nuclear-powered satellite, was launched. It fell onto Northen Canada on January the 24th 1978. -
Challenger explodes in midair
Just 72 seconds into it's 10 launch, Americans watched in horror as the space shuttle Challenger, exploded in midair, killing the crew of seven. Presiden Ronald Reagan spoke to the nation that afternoon, explaining the tragedy to the nations schoolchildren: " The future doesn't belong to the Fainthearted. it belongs to the brave.... The crew of the Challenger honoured us by the manner in which they lived their lives. They slipped the surly bonds of Earth to touch the face of god. -
Space station
The Soviet Union lainched the first component of it's Mir space station. Mir meant peace. -
SECRET?
The space shuttle Atlantis was launched on a SECRET four day mission. -
Scrubbed
The launch of the space shuttle 'Discovery' was scrubbed at the last second. -
Communication satellite.
A $225 million rocket and communication satellite exploded after take-off at Cape Canaveral. -
3 miles deep?
The Liberty Bell 7 Mercury capsule, which sank in 1961, was found 300 miles offshore from Cape Canaveral in waters 3 miles deep. -
Third man to walk on the moon... Dead.
Astronaut Charles "Pete" Conrad Junior, the third man to walk on the moon, died after having a motorcycle accident near Ojai, California; he was 69
