Unit 5 Cold War and Space Race (1945 - 1989)

  • GROUP 4: Introduction of the F4F Wildcat in the war.

    American fighter aircraft
  • GROUP 4: First supersonic flight

  • GROUP 4: Start of Korean War

  • GROUP 1: Haviland Comet

    The Havilland Comet becomes the world's first commercial jet airliner
  • GROUP 4: End of Korean War

  • GROUP 4: First flight of the Mig-19

  • GROUP 4: Introduction of the Mig-19

  • GROUP4: First flight of the Mig-21

  • GROUP 2: First Intercontinental Ballistic Missile (ICBM)

    The R-7 Semiorka was the first intercontinental ballistic missile deployed by the Soviet Union.
  • GROUP2: Sputnik 1 launch

    The USSR successfully launched Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite to get in to orbit.
  • GROUP 3: USSR launches the first artificial satellite

    Sputnik 1
  • GROUP2: launch of Sputnik 2 first ship launched with biological material.

    The first animal to go into orbit was the dog Laika, who traveled aboard the Soviet ship Sputnik 2.
  • GROUP 3: USSR launches Sputnik 2, with the dog Laika on board.

    The animal died during the mission due to overheating in the ship.
  • GROUP 3: America's first attempt to launch a satellite

    The rocket exploded on the launch pad
  • GROUP 1: Boeing 707

    Pan American initiates its New York to London route with the Boeing 707
  • GROUP 1: Beijing Capital International Airport

    Today's second busiest airport internationally, Beijing Capital International Airport, opens
  • GROUP 1: London - New York

    Pan American initiates its New York to London route with the Boeing 707
  • GROUP2: Explorer 1 release

    The United States managed to launch its first satellite, Explorer 1.
  • GROUP2: First communications satellite

    SCORE (Signal Communication by Orbiting Relay Equipment) was the first ever artificial communications satellite. It was sponsored by DARPA and launched by an Atlas missile from Cape Canaveral.
  • GROUP2: First probe on the moon

    the Soviet Moon program began with the launch of the Moon 1 probe, becoming the first probe to reach the Moon
  • GROUP 3: US sends a pair of monkeys into space

    They are the first two living things that returned to earth alive.
  • GROUP 3: USSR sends the first man into space

    Yuri Gagarin traveled the Earth's orbit in 108 minutes.
  • GROUP2: First human in space

    Soviet Yuri Gagarin became the first human to reach space, on an orbital flight aboard the Vostok 1 ship
  • GROUP2: First American in Space

    Alan Shepard was the first American to reach space, making a suborbital trajectory aboard the Mercury Redstone 3 rocket.
  • GROUP 3: First American to reach space

    Alan Shepard
  • GROUP 3: First American to traverse the Moon's orbit

    John Glenn traveled more than 130 thousand kilometers circling the moon 3 times
  • GROUP2: First mission with two humans in orbit

    the Soviet Union carried out the first mission with two humans in orbit, in Vostok 3 and Vostok 4 capsules, separated from each other by a few hundred kilometers.
  • GROUP2: : It is possible to fly over Venus

    the US Mariner 2 was the first to fly over Venus successfully
  • GROUP2: First Woman in Space

    the Soviet Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman to reach space aboard the Vostok6.
  • GROUP 3: USSR sends the first woman into space

    Valentina Tereshkova circled the earth 49 times over three days in space.
  • GROUP2: Kennedy assassination

    President Kennedy is assassinated, and President Johnson assumes dearly.
  • GROUP 3: First spacewalk

    Alexei Leonov. The mission nearly ended in disaster when Leonov's spacesuit inflated in space.
  • GROUP2: First Space Encounter

    the first space encounter between the Gemini 6 and Gemini 7 ships, both Americans, took place.
  • GROUP 4: Nuclear Accident in Palomares

  • GROUP 1: FAA

    The modern-day FAA is established as part of the U.S. Department of Transportation
  • GROUP 3: First person to die on a space mission

    Vladimir Komarov dies when the Soyuz 1 rocket parachute does not open properly. The capsule crashed near Orenburg in Russia's Ural Mountains
  • GROUP 4: Start of Six Day War

  • GROUP 4: End of Six Day War

  • GROUP2: Man Arrives on the Moon

    American Neil Armstrong became the first person to walk on the lunar surface, having landed the day before.
  • GROUP 3: First walk on the moon

    Neil Amstrong and Edwin Buzz Aldrin spend two hours on the Moon's surface collecting rocks and setting up observation gear
  • GROUP 1: Airbus foundation

    Internationall company, Airbus, is created
  • GROUP 3: Apollo 13 failure

    "Houston, we have a problem". An explosion caused by a failure in an oxygen tank did not let them reach the moon surface.
  • GROUP2: Venera 7 release

    The Venera 7 probe was the first to send data from the surface of Venus.
  • GROUP2: Mars 2 and Mars 3 manage to perch on Mars

    Mars 2 and Mars 3lorated perching on the surface of Mars, the first abruptly and the second broke down 20 seconds after landing softly, so they failed to send data.
  • GROUP 3: Russia launches the first space station

    Salyut. The tripulation died when it returned to Earth when air escaped from its Soyuz capsule.
  • GROUP2: Pioneer 10 probe arrives in Jupiter

    Pioneer 10 was the first probe to successfully cross the asteroid belt and reach planet Jupiter, the main target of its mission.
  • GROUP 1: The first female airline pilot

    The first female airline pilot, Emily Warner, flies as second officer for Frontier Airlines
  • GROUP 3: NASA launches the Skylab space station

    The first laboratory in space.
  • GROUP 4: Introduction of the Grumman F-14 Tomcat

  • GROUP2: Pioneer 11 discovers Jupiter's Great Red Spot

    During his superflight of Jupiter the Pioneer 11 probe obtained images of the Great Red Spot, made the first observations of the polar regions and determined the mass of Calisto.
  • GROUP 3: First international space mission

    The Apollo Soyuz test project. American astronaut Thomas Stafford joins Russian Alexei Leonov.
  • GROUP 1: Concorde

    Concorde jet flies first supersonic passenger flight
  • GROUP 1: Laws

    Airline Deregulation Act is signed into law, removing government control over fares, routes and market entry
  • GROUP 4: Start of Afganistan War

  • GROUP2: Pioneer 11 arrives on Saturn

    The Pioneer 11 arrived on Saturn, taking the first photographs at a short distance from the planet, where it was able to discover two new satellites and additional rings.
  • GROUP2: First space shuttle

    The space shuttle Columbia was the first of NASA's space shuttles to serve missions outside Earth.
  • GROUP 3: First person to walk in space without being tied to the ship

    McCandless tested a unit that allowed him to move up to 98 meters from the ship during the 90 minutes of his walk
  • GROUP 3: First attempt non-astronaut person to travel into space

    Sally Ride. Challenger spacecraft exploded. All seven astronauts on board died.
  • GROUP 3: First permanent space station

    The Soviet Union launches its Mir space station into orbit, which has seven docking sub-stations. This allows adding new modules, expanding its size and capacity.
  • GROUP2: first space shuttle with fully automatic guidance

    The Soviet Union launches Buran the first shuttle with automatic guidance.