The Space Race

Sputnik 1

Oct 4, 1957

First Satellite in space.

Space Race

Period: Oct 4, 1957 to Jul 8, 2011

Explorer 1

Jan 31, 1958

First American satellite

Formation of NASA.

Jul 29, 1958

American space program

Vostok 1,First Man in space

Apr 12, 1961

Alan Shepard.Freedom 7.First American

May 5, 1961

John Glenn,Friengship 7.First American orbit

Feb 20, 1962

First woman in space

Jun 16, 1963

First spacewalk

Mar 18, 1965

First American Spacewalk

Jun 3, 1965

Apollo 1,Tragic Fire

Jan 27, 1967

Soyuz 1 crash

Apr 23, 1967

Apollo 7,First Apollo Success

Oct 11, 1968

Saturn V/Apollo 8,First moonshot

Dec 21, 1968

First manned moon landing,Apollo 11

Jul 20, 1969

Moon Program ends,Apollo 17

Dec 7, 1972

Space Shuttle program starts

Apr 12, 1981

ISS

Nov 20, 1998

Shuttle program ends

Jul 8, 2011