Space race update

Chayil's Space Race Timeline

By rodricha

  • First Animal in Space by USA

    First Animal in Space by USA
    A monkey with the name of Albert I was launched on a V-2 Blossom from White Sands, New Mexico.

  • First Satellite by USSR

    First Satellite by USSR
    The very first Satellite in space by the USSR was called the Sputnik I. It was made by Energia, a soviet union space company similar to NASA.

  • First Animal in Space by USSR

    First Animal in Space by USSR
    A dog named Laika was launched into space, and died during that flight. It was intended for the dog to die because there wasn't any technology at the time for landing.

  • First Satellite by USA

    First Satellite by USA
    The Explorer I was launched by the Army successfully. It was built under the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), officially created by William Hayward Pickering.

  • Creation of NASA

    Creation of NASA
    In response to the Soviet Union's launch of Sputnik I, they created the National Aeronautics and Space Administration also known as NASA. The U.S. Congress passed this into creation.

  • First Man in Space and to Orbit the Earth by USSR

    First Man in Space and to Orbit the Earth by USSR
    Yuri Gagarin was the first man launched into space and successfully fly into space on the USSR's Vostok spacecraft. He became a hero to the Soviet Union because he orbited around the Earth. He lasted 108 minutes.

  • First Man in Space by USA

    First Man in Space by USA
    Alan Shephard became the first American to be launched into space, he was the spacecraft of Freedom 7, aboard a Mercury-Redstone Rocket.

  • JFK's Commitment to Getting to the Moon

    JFK's Commitment to Getting to the Moon
    JFK talked before the public and congress stating that America should commit themselves to a goal of getting to the moon and returning man safely from the Moon, before the decade.

  • First Man to Orbit the Earth by USA

    First Man to Orbit the Earth by USA
    John Glenn became the first man to orbit around the Earth and the fifth person to be in space and third American. He was on the Friendship 7 mission.

  • First EVA by USSR

    First EVA by USSR
    Alexei Leonov was the first man from USSR to perform an EVA on March 18, 1965. He spent 12 minutes and 9 seconds outside the Voskhod 2 spacecraft.

  • First EVA by USA

    First EVA by USA
    Ed White was the first to perform an EVA and do a space walk.

  • Gemini 4

    Gemini 4
    This mission included the first American spacewalk. The people on the mission were James McDivitt and Edward White. The objective of the mission was to test the performance of the astronauts and capsule and to evaluate work procedures, schedules, and flight planning for an extended time in space.

  • Gemini 8

    Gemini 8
    Neil Armstrong and David Scott had to perform rendezvous and four docking tests with the Agena target vehicle and to execute an ExtraVehicular Activity experiment.

  • Gemini 12

    Gemini 12
    The final of the series which bridged to the Mercury and Apollo series. Jim Lovell and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin, was scheduled to perform rendezvous and docking with the Agena target vehicle, to conduct three EVA operations.

  • Apollo 1

    Apollo 1
    This space tragedy happened when a flash fire broke out in the command module of Apollo 204 during a simulated launch at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. This killed the astronauts Virgil "Gus" Grissom, Edward White, and Roger Chaffee.