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Soviet Union sends first ever satellite to Outer Space
On October 4th, 1957 the Soviet Union sent the first ever satellite, which could travel over enemy terrain. The satellite was named Sputnik 1, then was sent into outter space -
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Soviet Union Sends Dog to Space (Sputnik 2)
On January 31st, 1958 the Soviet Union sent a dog named Laika to space, Laika was the first animal ever to orbit earth. She died after 5 hours of orbiting. The shuttle was called Sputnik 2 -
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Both Countries have there eyes set on the moon!
At first the Soviet Union send Luna 1 in January... its missed its target but it was the first to orbit Earth In March U.S.A. sent Pioneer 4 but it missed and fell into Solar's Orbit. Later Luna 3 did a flyby photographed the moons far side. -
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In 1960 the United States of America created a spy satellite. The satellite was a satellite that had a camera on it so the U.S.A. could spy on the Soviet Union. The satellites code-name was Corona and it took one of the most famous photos of the pentagon and it could take clear pictures of such a small thing such as a car. (Remember this satellite was in space and could see a car!) -
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Discoverer 14 was the first successful low resolution photo surveillance spacecraft. And i was launched by the US Air Force -
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On April 12th, 1961 the Soviet Union sent cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin flew into orbit onboard Vostok 1 and became the first man in space. At this time in the space-race the Soviet Union was in the lead. -
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Gherman Titov was the second man to be in space! He did 17 orbits. Gherman Titov was aboard Vostok 2. At this time in The space race USSR was in the lead -
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Scott Carpenter: Born in Boulder, Colorado, on May 1, 1925, and died on October 10, 2013 Carpenter was the son of research chemist Dr. M. Scott Carpenter and Florence Kelso Noxon Carpenter. . He also repeated John Glenn's flight aboard "Aurora 7". -
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On November 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was assassinated as he rode in a motorcade through Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas, Texas. -
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Alexei Leonov spends 12 minutes outside of his Voskhod spacecraft performing the first spacewalk. -
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Luna 9 was the first spacecraft to achieve a lunar soft landing and to transmit photographic data from the Moon's surface to Earth, preceding the U.S. Surveyor 1 soft lander by about 4 months. -
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Luna 10 was the first spacecraft to go into orbit around the Moon, and the first human-made object to orbit any body beyond the Earth. -
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Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarov is killed when the parachutes of his Soyuz 1 capsule fail to open properly following re-entry. -
USA
Mariner 4 was the fourth in a series of spacecraft used for planetary exploration in a flyby mode and represented the first successful flyby of the Mars. -
USA
On October 5th, 1967 Clifton Williams killed in a training jet, he was the fourth person from NASA's third group of astronauts to die. -
USA
We won!!!! On July 20th, 1969 Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong landed on the moon at this time in The Space Race U.S.A. had just won!!!
