USA vs USSR space race

USSR launches Sputnik 1

Oct 4, 1957

http://history.nasa.gov/sputnik/http://www.thespacerace.com/timeline/ This is the start of a multi year spread between the USSR and the USA. It was a successful launch and it was the size of a beach ball.

USSR launches 2nd Sputnik

Nov 3, 1957

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraftDisplay.do?id=1957-002Ahttp://www.thespacerace.com/timeline/ This was the first biological spacecraft.

Explorer 1 is launched and reaches orbit

Jan 1, 1958

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/explorer/history/http://www.thespacerace.com/timeline/ This was the first sattelite launched for the USA. It did 58.000 orbits before burning up.

Explorer 2 gets launched but it fails

Mar 5, 1958

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/explorer-2/http://www.thespacerace.com/timeline/ This was another launch by the USA except that this one did not do much because it failed to ignite.

Vanguard 1 and is up for three years

Mar 17, 1958

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/spacecraftDisplay.do?id=1958-002Bhttp://www.thespacerace.com/timeline/ This was a small sattelite that was used to test launch capabilities.

Sputnik 3 is launched by the USSR

May 15, 1958

http://www.zarya.info/Diaries/Sputnik/Sputnik3.phphttp://www.thespacerace.com/timeline/ This was the third sattelite that the USSR used and it took 106 minutes to orbit Earth.

Pioneer 1 just launched for the USA

Oct 11, 1958

http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/nmc/masterCatalog.do?sc=1958-007Ahttp://www.thespacerace.com/timeline/ This was a very successful sattelite that was launched by the USA. It was launched to study the radiation and many other types of things in space.

Soyuz 4 and 5 for the USSR perform docking

Jan 16, 1969

http://www.zarya.info/Diaries/Soyuz/Soyuz4-5/Mission.phphttp://www.thespacerace.com/timeline/ This was termed the first space station up in space. Also they went from 4 to 5 so the were the first people to go up in one and down in another.

This is the great day when Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin walk on the moon for the first time and when Michael Collins orbits the moon by himself

Jul 20, 1969

http://www.thespacerace.com/timeline/ This was the day where Neil Armstrong made it up the the moon and was able to step on it. He is known for the first ever human to step on the moon.

This is the last of the events from the Space Race and this is when Pete Conrad and Alan Bean perform the first precision lunar landing

Nov 19, 1969

http://www.thespacerace.com/timeline/ Thsi was when the US had the first lunar landing up in space.