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First animal in space by USA
The first animals sent into space were fruit flies aboard a U.S.-launched V-2 rocket on 20 February 1947 from White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico. -
USSR First satellite
The USSR sent up their latest invention, Sputnik that launched on October 4th, 1957. -
First animal in space by USSR
The first animal to make an orbital spaceflight around the Earth was the dog Laika, aboard the Soviet spacecraft Sputnik 2 on 3 November 1957. -
Creation of NASA
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration was created in 1958 from the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics, formed 1915 and other related organizations, as a result of the Space Race between the United States and the Soviet Union in the 1950s. -
First satellite in space by USA
Explorer 1 was the first satellite sent to space by the U.S. after the following two satellites Sputnik 1 and 2. -
JFK's speech and commitment to getting to the moon
For the eyes of the world now look into space, to the moon and to the planets beyond, and we have vowed that we shall not see it governed by a hostile flag of conquest, but by a banner of freedom and peace. ... There is no strife, no prejudice, no national conflict in outer space as yet. -
First man in space by USSR
The first man in space by the USSR was Gagarin who was launched into orbit by a Vostok rocket and became the first man in space. After completing one orbit, the spacecraft's automatic controls brought him safely back to Earth. -
First man to orbit Earth by USSR
Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human to enter space and the first to orbit the Earth, helping boost the Soviet space program and intensify the space race with the United States. -
3 events that were important in the Gemini missions
Gemini had four main goals: to test an astronaut's ability to fly long-duration missions (up to two weeks in space); to understand how spacecraft could rendezvous and dock in orbit around the Earth and the moon; to perfect re-entry and landing methods; and to further understand the effects of longer space flights on. -
First man to orbit Earth by USA
John H. Glenn, Jr became the first American to orbit the Earth. Glenn orbited the globe 3 times in 4 hours and 56 mins reaching speeds over 17,000 miles per hour. -
First man to do an EVA by USSR
The first EVA was performed on March 18, 1965, by Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, who spent 12 minutes and 9 seconds outside the Voskhod 2 spacecraft. -
First man to do an EVA by USA
Ed White from the second crewed Gemini flight, Gemini IV, for 21 minutes. White was tethered to the spacecraft, and his oxygen was supplied through a 25-foot (7.6 m) umbilical, which also carried communications and biomedical instrumentation. -
The launch of Apollo 7-11 and what they were known for as their "firsts"
Apollo 7 accomplished many firsts, including the first 3-person American spaceflight, the first live TV downlink from an American spacecraft, the first Saturn rocket to launch a crew into space, and the first time hot food was available to a crew in space. -
Any tragedies that led up to getting to the moon?
It was the world's first known space tragedy. Veteran space pilots Virgil I. (Gus) Grissom, 40, and Edward H. White, 36, and rookie Roger Chaffee, 31, died in flames while lying on their backs in their moonship in a routine ground test for their Feb. -
First man in space by USA
Alan Shepard, the first American in space, became the fifth astronaut to walk on the moon as part of the Apollo 14 lunar landing mission.