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The satellite was called 'Sputnik'. -
The animal was a dog named Laika. -
The satellite was called 'Explorer 1'. -
President Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act in July 29, 1958 -
He was named Ham the Chimp. -
His name was Yuri Gagarin. -
His name was Alan Shepard -
His name was John H. Glenn -
He delivered the speech at Rice University Stadium in Houston, TX. -
His name was Alexei A. Leonov -
The first crewed mission in NASA's Project Gemini and the first time 2 American astronauts went to space together. Gus Grissom and John Young were the astronauts. -
His name was Edward White. -
It was the first crewed rendezvous with another spacecraft (Gemini 7). The astronauts were Wally Schirra and Thomas P. Stafford. -
The original crew Elliot See and Charles Bassett died in a crash while flying a T-38 jet trainer to the McDonnell Aircraft plant. -
It rendezvoused and docked with an Agena Target Vehicle (ATV). The astronauts were Michael Collins (who became the first person to perform 2 EVA's) and John W. Young. -
It was planned to launch on February 21, 1967, but a cabin fire during a launch rehearsal at Cape Kennedy resulted in the crew Gus Grissom, Ed White and Roger B. Chaffee dying. -
The first crewed flight in NASA's Apollo Program. It provided the first live tv transmission of onboard crew activities. The astronauts were Walter M. Schirra, Donn F. Eisele, and R. Walter Cunningham. -
The first human spaceflight to reach the Moon. Astronauts Frank Borman, James Lovell, and William Anders were the first humans to photograph the Moon's far side and the Earthrise. -
The first flight of the full Apollo spacecraft: the command and service module (CSM) with the Lunar Module (LM). -
The first flight of a complete, crewed Apollo spacecraft to operate around the Moon. It was a practice run for Apollo 11. The astronauts were Thomas P. Stafford, John W. Young and Eugene A. Cernan. -
The first human spaceflight that landed humans on the moon. The astronauts were Michael Collins, Buzz Aldrin, and Neil Armstrong, the first man on the Moon.