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Sputnik #2
Nov. 3 - USSR launches Sputnik 2 which carried a small dog named Laika into orbit.This was the second thing and the first animal to go into orbit. -
Americas first satlite in space.
Explorer 1, the first American satellite to reach orbit, is launched. It carried scientific equipment that lead to the discovery of the Van Allen radiation belt. -
luna 1
Luna 1 is launched by the USSR. It is the first man made object to orbit the Sun.This was the first thing to go in the orbit of the sun. -
tiros 1
Tiros 1, the first successful weather satellite is launched by the u.s. and th us. has made a leap forward.in the space race. -
The soviet union orbits earth.
Yuri Gagarin orbits the Earth once and becomes the first man in space. And this was the peice that made them ahead of the USA. -
jhon glenn circles earth.
John Glenn orbits the Earth three times.And the U.s is trying to catch up to the soviet union. -
last american to fly in space alone
L. Gordon Cooper spends 34 hours in space. He is the last American to fly in space alone.He was also the first man to sleep in space. -
first woman in space.
Cosmonaut Valentia Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space.This is a great leap forward. -
moon images
Ranger 7 transmits the first close range images of the Moon. -
first man made object in space
Venus 3 is launched. It becomes the first man made object to impact Venus on March 1, 1966. -
first space rendezvous
Walter Schirra and Thomas Stafford, in their Gemini 6 spacecraft, make the first space rendezvous with Gemini 7. -
first space craft to soft land on the moon
Luna 9 becomes the first spacecraft to soft-land on the Moon. -
three men die aon apollo 1 when it caught on fire
Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee are killed when a fire ignites in their Apollo 1 capsule while performing a test on the launch pad.NASA's redesigning the capsule from scratch in a short period of time.And no one was able to figure out how the fire started. -
The U.S. orbits the moon.
First human-crewed spaceflight to, and orbit of another celestial object the Moon this space shuttle is known as Appollo 8. -
The us. wins the space race.
Neil Armstrong and Edwin Buzz Aldrin become the first men to walk on the Moon while crewmate Michael Collins orbits around the Moon alone.
