Space Timeline

By NessaJackson1

  • Sputnik; USSR

    1st artificial satellite.

  • Lakia (dog); USSR

    1st mammal in orbit.

  • Mercury program; US

    Mercury Program began.

  • Yuri Gagarin; USSR

    1st man in space.

  • Alan Shepard (Projec t Mercury); US

    1st US astronaut in space.

  • John Glenn Jr. (Project Mercury); US

    1st US astronaut to orbit the Earth.

  • Gemini Program began; US

  • Valentina Tereshkova; USSR

    1st woman in space.

  • Apollo program began; US

    Began testing of the Saturn rockets in 1961.

  • Neil Armstrong, Apollo 11; US

    1st man on the moon.

  • Voyager 2 Launched

  • Voyager 1 launched.

  • Columbia; US

    1st space shuttle mission.