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The Soviet Union launched Sputnik 5 into space with a dogs name Strelka and Belka. These dogs became the first living beings to survive a trip to space.
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The Soviet Union launched Vostok 1 with Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin on it and he became the human to go into space.
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President Kennedy challenged the country to put a man on the moon by the end of the decade. He also asked for $7 billion to $9 billion to be donated to NASA.
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The spaceship Mariner 4 transmitted the first pictures of Mars.
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Apollo 11 was launched with Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on it. Apollo 11 was launched at Kennedy Space Center in Merritt Beach, Florida.
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The U.S. launched its first space station, Skylab. Skylab eventually crashed into the Indian Ocean in 1978.
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President George W. Bush advocates space exploration missions to the moon and Mars for NASA in his Vision for Space Exploration speech
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New Horizons was a space probe that left Earth to explore Pluto and its surroundings. New Horizons sent back groundbreaking pictures of Pluto on July 14th, 2015. NASA has decided that since the probe found so much information they will keep using it.
