Space Race Timeline

By JamesT40
  • Monkey in space

    Monkey in space

    The first ever monkey astronaut was Albert, a rhesus monkey, who on June 11, 1948 rode to over 63 km (39 mi) on a V2 rocket. Albert died of suffocation during the flight.[1][2][3]
  • Satelite Launch

    Satelite Launch

  • Soviet Announces Space Race

    Soviet Announces Space Race

    The Space Race was a mid-to-late 20th century competition between the Soviet Union (USSR) and the United States (USA) for supremacy in space exploration
  • Sputnik 2

    Sputnik 2

    USSR launches Sputnik 2 which carried a small dog named Laika into orbit
  • Sputnik

    Sputnik

    USSR launches Sputnik 1.
  • Failed US satellite launch

    Failed US satellite launch

    Project Vanguard was a program made by the USA which intended to launch the first artificial satellite
  • Explorer 1

    Explorer 1

    Explorer 1 was launched on January 31, 1958 Eastern Time (equal to February 1, 03:48 UTC) atop the first Juno booster
  • NASA

    NASA

    The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is the agency of the United States government that is responsible for the nation's civilian
  • First Soviet Man In Space

    First Soviet Man In Space

    Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin 9 March 1934 – 27 March 1968 was a Soviet pilot . He was the first human to journey into outer space, when his Vostok spacecraft
  • first man to the moon

    first man to the moon

    Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that landed the first humans on the Moon, Americans Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, on July 20, 1969,