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Launching of sputnik I
History changed on October 4, 1957, when the Soviet Union successfully launched Sputnik I. The world's first artificial satellite was about the size of a beach ball.It took about 98 minutes to orbit the Earth on its elliptical path. That launch ushered in new political, military, technological, and scientific developments. While the Sputnik launch was a single event, it marked the start of the space age and the U.S.-U.S.S.R space race. -
launching of sutnik 2
On November 3, 1957 Russia launched sputnik 2, it was the first satellite to carry a passenger into space. The passenger was a female dog called Laika. Laika weighed 25 pounds, and was 8 inches tall. The satellite she went into space with weighed a whopping 1,120 Lbs! Unfortunately the rocket carried life support for only a few days so Laika died. Her flight proved that humans could go into space. She paved the way for astronauts today. -
sputnik 3 is launched
Sputnik 3 was an automatic scientific laboratory spacecraft. It was conically-shaped and was 3.57 m long. The scientific instrumentation provided data on pressure and composition of the upper atmosphere, The spacecraft remained in orbit until April 6, 1960. -
Luna 1 is launched by the USSR
Luna 1, like three prior spacecraft in the Soviet Union's Ye-1 series, was intended to impact the Moon. The spacecraft carried instruments to study interplanetary matter, cosmic radiation and the magnetic fields of the Moon and Earth.The spacecraft was the first to escape Earth's gravity, but a guidance system malfunction caused it to miss the Moon. The spacecraft instead flew past the Moon Contact with the spacecraft was lost 62 hours after launch. -
Luna 2 is launched
Luna 2, like Luna 1, took a direct path to the Moon with a journey time of around 36 hours. This was dictated by the fact that the Earth-Moon gravitational system forced it to follow a curved trajectory, and launch had to occur from the side of the Earth opposite the Moon. Its journey time had to be, therefore, 12 hours, 36 hours or 60 hours -
Yuri Gagarin orbits the Earth once and becomes the first man in space.
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.The diminutive Gagarin, who stood a mere 5-foot-2, appeared ready to pursue a career as an industrial worker but found his passion for flying while attending technical school. -
Alan B. Shepard becomes the first American in space.
Shepard became the first American in space on May 5, 1961, soaring 116 miles high in his Freedom 7 capsule.
The Soviet Union's Yuri Gagarin beat him into space by just 23 days. Then, as now, those who helped launch Shepard took solace in the fact that "it was the first one for the free world." -
John Glenn orbits the Earth three times.
John Glenn orbited the earth three times. His flight lasted about 5 hours. Glenn attended primary and secondary schools in New Concord Ohio. He attended muskimgun college in new concord and received a bachelor of science dregree in engineering. -
Surveyor 1 lands on the moon
Surveyor 1 is the first U.S. spacecraft to make a soft landing. settling down at a site called flamsteed in oceanus procellarum, surveyor 1 sent back alot of pictures from the moon. Surveyor 1 main object was to get close up pictures of the moon. six more surveyor were launched throught 7, january 1968. -
Mariner 4 returns close ranger images of Mars
mariner 4 was the fourth in a series of spacecraft launched on november 28,1964 intended for planetary exploration in a flyby mode and performed the first successful flyby of the planet of Mars retruning the first pictures of the martian surface. -
venus 3
Venus 3 is launched. It becomes the first man made object to impact Venus on March 1, 1966.The mission of this spacecraft was to land on the Venusian surface. The entry body contained a radio communication system, scientific instruments, electrical power sources, and medallions bearing the coat of arms of the U.S.S.R. The station impacted Venus on March 1, 1966 -
Luna 10 becomes the first satellite to orbit the Moon
The luna 10 spacecraft was launched towards the moon from an Earth orbiting platform. The Spacecraft entered lunar orbit on april 4,1966. scientific instruments included a gama-ray spectrometer for energry. Luna 10 was battery powered and operated for 460 lunar orbits and 219 active data transmissions. -
Gemini 12
gemini 12 was the tenth and final flight of the gemini series, which bridged the mercury and apollo programs. Jim Lovell and Edwin Buzz Aldrin was scheduled to perform rendezvous and docking with the agena target vehicle. there were 14 scientific, medical and technological experiments on board -
Astronaut Clifton Williams is killed in a plane crash.
Clifton Curtis CC. Williams was a NASA astronaut a naval aviator and a major in the united states Marine Corps who was killed in a plane crash. He had never been to space. The Crash was caused by a mechanical failure in a nasa jet trainer in which he was piloting to visit his parents in Mobile. Alabama -
Apollo 17 return from teh moon
apollo 17 was the last apollo mission to land men on the mooon. it carried the only geologist to walk on the lunar surface, lunar module pilot harrison schmit. campared to previous apollo missions apollo 17 astronauts traversed dthe greatest distane using lunar roving vehicle.
