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A chimpanzee named Ham, Going to space.
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Found on the streets of Moscow, Laika had all the qualities that made a mutt a perfect pet. She was intelligent, calm, and easily trained. Laika was placed in the padded capsule of Sputnik the ll at midday.
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Kathrine johnson. Kathrine Johnson was a black woman who worked at NASA. She helped them calculate things at NASA and helped with the space race.
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The space race roared to life on October 4, 1957.
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In September 1962, about a year after Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first person ever to orbit the earth.
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What life was like for Yuri Gagarin during his April 1961 Vostok.
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Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov was the first man to walk in space on March 18th.
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Apollo 11 landed on the moon in 1969, and scientists back on Earth waited anxiously for a sample of moon soil and rock.
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Buzz Aldrin's footprint was the first footprint on the moon
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What if the Apollo 11 mission to the moon went wrong? The president made a speech about astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin who got stranded.