Apollo 11 Mission Timeline

By SarahBurgdorff

  • USSR Launches Sputnik

  • US Launches Explorer

  • NASA was formed

  • Russian becomes first man in Space

  • First American in Space

  • President John F. Kennedy addresses putting a man on the moon

  • Luna 9 becomes the first spacecraft to soft land on the moon

  • Apollo 8 begins the first manned journey to the moon

  • Apollo 11 Takes Off

  • First Man walks on Moon

  • Apollo 11 Spacecraft Lands in Ocean

  • President Nixon's Announcement of the Space Shuttle

  • The Space Shuttle's First Flight

  • Ending of The Soviet Union as a space competitor

  • Creation of the International Space Station

  • Flight of SpaceShipOne