spaceRace Timeline

  • A monkey going to space

    A monkey going to space

    A chimpanzee named Ham, Going to space.
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    "And a dog shall lead them" from a ball, a dog, and a monkey.

    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: Trailblazer and brilliant mathematician

    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

    The space race roared to life on October 4, 1957.
  • President Kennedys Address at rice University.

    President Kennedys Address at rice University.

    In September 1962, about a year after Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first person ever to orbit the earth.
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    First to Fly from into that silent sea

    What life was like for Yuri Gagarin during his April 1961 Vostok.
  • first man to walk on the moon

    Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov was the first man to walk in space on March 18th.
  • What the moon rock tells us.

    What the moon rock tells us.

    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,a photograph of one of the first steps ever taken on the moon

    Buzz Aldrin's footprint was the first footprint on the moon
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    In event of moon disaster

    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.