Space Race Timeline

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  • Sputnik 1

    Sputnik 1

    The Soviet Union sent up the world's first official satellite.
  • Laika First Animal In Space

    Laika First Animal In Space

    The first animal in space Laika a dog boarded the soviet spacecraft Sputnik 2.
  • The Explorer (First Satellite by the USA)

    The Explorer (First Satellite by the USA)

    The first satellite "The Explorer" sent by the United States.
  • Creation of NASA

    Creation of NASA

    Eisenhower signed the Space Act causing the creation of NASA. NASA then opened for business later on Oct 1, 1958.
  • Chimpanzee in Space

    Chimpanzee in Space

    Ham is the first chimpanzee to go to space at an altitude of 157 miles in the mercury Redstone 2 mission. He performed his tasks and came back healthy.
  • First man in space by USSR

    First man in space by USSR

    The USSR sent the first man into space, Yuri Ggarin. Where the Vostok 1 circled Earth.
  • First man in space by USA

    First man in space by USA

    Astronaut Alan Shepard the first astronuat in the US to go to space and the second national astronaut to go to space. IN the Freedom 7.
  • First man to orbit Earth by USA

    First man to orbit Earth by USA

    John H Glenn the first astronaut in the USA to orbit Earth.
  • JFK's speech and commitment to getting to the moon

    JFK's speech and commitment to getting to the moon

    After the first man sent to space at Rice University JFK gave a speech saying NASA will go to the moon.
  • First EVA USSR

    First EVA USSR

    The first EVA performed by Alexei Leonov part of the USSR.
  • Gemini 4

    Gemini 4

    Two astronauts James McDivitt and Ed White in the Gemini 4 the first spcewalk by the,.
  • First man to do an EVA by USA

    First man to do an EVA by USA

    Ed white the first USA astronaught to perform EVA part of Gemini 4.
  • Gemini 9 Crew

    Gemini 9 Crew

    Elliot See and Charles Basset died in a plane crash when their jet collided with a building during a pre launch training.
  • Gemini 8

    Gemini 8

    Neil Armstrong and David Scott achieved the first sucessful docking of spacecraft in orbit and was soon cut short due ot a malfunction.
  • Gemini 12

    Gemini 12

    Two astronauts James Lovell and Edwin Aldrin performed successful spacewalk and proved techniques working outside spacecraft.
  • Apollo 1

    Apollo 1

    A fire killing three crew members Virgil Grissom, Edward White, and Roger Chaffee. Occured due to a spark in the high pressure pure oxygen atomsphere inside a space craft.
  • Apollo 7

    Apollo 7

    Wally Schirra, Donn Eisele, and Walter Conningham first crewed apollo mission. Tested the redesigned apollo command module
  • Apollo 8

    Apollo 8

    Frank Borman, James Lovell, and William Anders first crewed mission to orbit the moon. Also made the earth rise photograph.
  • Apollo 9

    Apollo 9

    James McDivitt, David Scott, and Rusty Schweickart the first manned test of the Lunar Module in Earth orbit.
  • Apollo 10

    Apollo 10

    Thomas Stafford, John Young, and Eugene Cernan first complete "dress rehearsal" for a lunar landing.
  • Apollo 11

    Apollo 11

    Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins first successful manned moon landing became first humans to walk on the moon.