Space Race-CB1

By BurgessC14@ksdr1.net

  • Launch of Sputnic 1

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    The launch of sputnic 1 spurred the us to start creating their own spaceships.

  • N.A.S.A. was formed

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    Nasa started with 12 unpaid, highly qualified men with a 5,000 dollar budget. Nasa made fundimental aeronaughtic breakhroughs in designing air and spacecrafts.

  • Luna 2 is launched

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    Luna 2 lands on the moon, becoming the first spacecraft to do so.

  • Trios 1 is launched

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    Trios 1 sucessfully made it to space and sent back the first accurate weather readings.

  • Yuri Gagarin orbits the Earth

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    Yuri orbits the earth once, and becomes the first man in space.

  • John Glenn orbits the Earth three times

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    For 4 hours and 56 minutes, Jon orbits the earth three times, unlike Yuri Gagarin, who only orbited once.

  • President Kennedy is assassinated

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    President Kennedy is assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald, a recently hired employee at the Texas School Book Depository.

  • Luna 9 is launched

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    Luna 9 became the first man-made object to soft-land on the moon.

  • Zond 5 launches

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    Zond 5 carried two Russian tortoises, wine flies, meal worms, plants, seeds, bacteria, and other living matter into space to record data about how living things react in space.

  • Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin become the first men to walk on the Moon

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    Niel and Buzz take apollow 11 to the moon, and become the first men on the moon. The U.S. had finally won the space race.