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Space Race Timeline

By Seayand
  • First satellite in space by USSR

    First satellite in space by USSR

    Soviets launched first Satellite into space called Sputnik 1
  • First animal in space by USSR

    First animal in space by USSR

    Soviets send a dog named Laika into space
  • First satellite in space by USA

    First satellite in space by USA

    Explorer 1 was the first US Satellite into space
  • Creation of NASA

    Creation of NASA

    President Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act creating NASA
  • First animal in space by USA (Ham the chimp)

    First animal in space by USA (Ham the chimp)

    Ham the chimp was the first animal for the US launched into space.
  • First man in space by USSR

    First man in space by USSR

    Yuri Gagarin was the first man into space
  • First man in space by USA

    First man in space by USA

    Alan Shepard was the first man in space by the US
  • First man to orbit Earth by USA

    First man to orbit Earth by USA

    John Glenn was the first US man to orbit the earth
  • Gemini 3

    Gemini 3

    This mission had a crew John Young and Gus Grissom they orbited the earth
  • Gemini 1

    Gemini 1

    Uncrewed test flight to test the spaceship
  • Gemini 2

    Gemini 2

    Second space mission by NASA in this program similar to the first to test the spaceship.
  • First man to do an EVA by USSR

    First man to do an EVA by USSR

    Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov was the first soviet to do an EVA
  • JFK's speech and commitment to getting to the moon

    JFK's speech and commitment to getting to the moon

    President Kennedy declared we will reach the moon before the end of the decade
  • First man to do an EVA by USA

    First man to do an EVA by USA

    Ed White during the Gemini 4 mission.
  • Original Gemini 9 crew

    Original Gemini 9 crew

    Elliot See and Charles Basset were killed in a training aircraft
  • Apollo 1 crew

    Apollo 1 crew

    Virgil Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee where killed when the command module caught on fire.
  • Apollo 7

    Apollo 7

    The first crewed spaceflight in the Apollo program.
  • Apollo 8

    Apollo 8

    The first crewed spacecraft to leave low Earth orbit and the first human spaceflight to reach the Moon and orbit it.
  • Apollo 9

    Apollo 9

    It was the first crewed flight of all Apollo lunar hardware, as well as the first crewed flight of the lunar module
  • Apollo 10

    Apollo 10

    It was a complete staging of the Apollo 11 mission without actually landing on the Moon
  • Apollo 11

    Apollo 11

    First man to walk on the moon.