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Sputnik Launch
In 1957 the U.S and Soviet Union (Russia) have gone into a cold war. Soviet Union has launched Sputnik their satellite. With America trying to make a quick rocket to get back at them but it fails misarably. Now Soviet was winning. -
First Dog In Space
The Soviet Union sent the first dog, who was a female, into space. They sent her out on Sputnik II. The dogs name was Laika. -
Nasa's Astronauts
Seven astronaunts were choosen to go up into space, one of them by the name of John Glenn Jr became instantly famous. -
Yuri Gagarin
Soviets launch Yuri Gagarin into space. When he got up there he circled the Earth in 108 minutes, and landing back down safetly on Earth. -
Alan Shepard
Less than a month after Soviet's own Yuri was sent into space U.S came back into the game with Shepard. The Soviet wasn't very impressed with Alan but it proved that they are still fighting back. -
John Glenn
John Glenn was a back-up astronaut. His mission was to circle the Earth and if he did then like the Soviet Union, America would be able to send anyone anywhere. This is the date he was woken up early to go up into space. He was the first American to ordbit Earth. -
First Woman In Space
Soviet Union sent the first woman into space. Her name was Valentina Tereshkova. -
First Space Walk
This was the date that Alexei Leonov was the first human to space walk. He stayed in space for 22 minutes. -
Virgil "Gus" Grissom, Edward White II, and Roger Chaffee
Virgil "Gus" Grissom, Edward White II, and Roger Chaffee are killed in a fire on the launch pad. -
Komarov's Death
This man was the first man to ever die aboard a flight into space. -
Apollo 11 stands on the launchpad, ready for liftoff.
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"That's one small step for man… one giant leap for mankind."
This is Neil Armstrong's quote when he first landed on the Moon. He was able to walk as well. It was amazing. -
First Space Rescue
An oxygen tank had exploded on Apollo 13, NASA sending a rescue crew after the people in that rocket, a few hours later coming back down safetly to Earth. -
First Mars Landing
Viking one, a device that was sent to space to take pictures on Mars landed safetly. Soon enough Viking two went onto mars in September that same year. -
First american Woman In Space
Sally Ride was her name. She was the first American woman to go up into space. -
First Woman to Walk In Space
Svetlana Savitskaya from Soviet Union becomes the first woman to take a walk into space. She experimented for three hours out there. She was also the second woman to fly into space. -
The "Challenger" explodes
The Space craft "challenger" explodes and kills all 7 crew members aboard the shuttle going into space -
First Year in Space
Musa Manarov and Vladimir Titov were the first two people to spend a year in space. -
First Space Telescope
This telescopr is called the Hubble Space telescope. This telescope provides images of galaxies and other places further away from Earth. -
First American to spend 6 months in Space
Shannon Lucid had spent 223 days in space by herself. She set the record.
