Spaceship timeline

By deknikkerkailey

  • First officail satellite

    Sputnik I was launched by the Soviet Union

  • Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin completes the first manned space flight.

    he orbited the Earth 108 minutes.

  • President Kennedy declares the American space objective.

    To put a man on the moon and return him safely by the end of the decade.

  • The first woman in space.

    Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova made 48 complete orbits.

  • man's first spacewalk

    Cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov takes the first space walk

  • NASA astronaut Alan Shepard blasted off

    in Freedom 7 capsule atop Mercury-Redstone rocket to become the first American in space

  • man walks on the moon

    Neil Armstrong and Edwin Buzz Aldrin of Apollo XI spend 21 1/2 hours on the moon, 2 1/2 of those outside the capsule.

  • Sally Ride becomes first American woman in space.