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National Security Act
Changed Army Air Force into U. S. Air Force -
Yeager Breaks Sound Barrier
Yeager Breaks the Sound Barrier at Muroc in X-1 -
Testing of Atomic Bomb
1st momentous event of Cold War - Soviets have access to atomic bomb -
Soviets Launch Sputnik
Second momentous event of Cold War -
National Aeronautics and Space Act is signed into law by President Eisenhower
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NASA opens for Business with First Administrator T.Keith Glennan
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Original 7 Astronauts for Project Mercury Announced
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1st Man in Space - Russian Yuri Gagarin
Russian astronauts had to land on the ground. -
Alan Shepard - 1st US Man in space
Short flight, did not orbit the earth...John Glenn said the Rusisian beat us to space. -
First Man on Moon -Neil Armstrong
The eagle has landed.