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The Space Race

  • Oct, 4 1957

    The U.S.S.R Releases the first artificial satellite into space called the Sputnik 1
  • Feb. 1 1958

    The U.S sends the Explorer one into the Earth's orbit, this was the first us satellite
  • Apr. 5 1959

    The Mercury 7, was announced to be the first manned mission to space for the U.S
  • Apr. 12 1961

    The U.S.S.R Send the first man into space named Yury Gagarin, on the Vostok 1
  • Feb. 20 1962

    The U.S sends the first American into space, John Glenn on Mercury-Atlas 6
  • Aug. 1964

    The Soviet government announces their two-moon programs, which would consist of flybys and landings.
  • Mar. 23, 1965

    The First multiperson US rocket was made called the Gemini 3, it held Virgil Grissom and John Young
  • Mar. 18, 1965

    The U.S.S.R Astronaut Aleksey Leonov take the first space walk on the Vokshod 2
  • Jun. 3, 1965

    Ed White on Gemini 4, was the first Amerian to do a space walk.
  • Feb. 3 1966

    The U.S.S.R Accomplishes the first soft landing on the moon with the Luna 9
  • Mar. 16, 1966

    Neil Armstrong and David Scott conduct the first space docking with an Agena Target and Gemini 8
  • Sept. 21 1968

    The Soviet vessel, and 5, was the first spacecraft to orbit the moon and land back on earth.
  • Oct. 11 1968

    The U.S Apollo program sends its first spacecraft known as the Apollo 7
  • Jul. 3 1969

    The U.S.S.R suffer the explosion of the N1 moon rocket
  • Jul. 20. 1969

    The U.S Successfully Lands the first humans on the moon. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the Apollo 11

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