Ella - space race timeline

Creation of NASA

Jul 29, 1956

President Eisenhower signed the act creating NASA

Launch of Sputnik - first satellite for the USSR

Oct 4, 1957

Launched at 7:28 PM, Sputnik was the first artificial satellite to be launched into Earth's low elliptical orbit by the USSR.

Laika the dog

Nov 3, 1957

The first animal to orbit the earth for the USSR on Sputnik 2

The Explorer 1

Jan 31, 1958

The first satellite in space for the US

First human in space - USSR

Apr 1, 1961

First man in space for the USSR was Yuri Gagarin

First man in space - US

May 1, 1961

The first man to be in space for the US was Alan Shepard

First man to orbit the earth

Feb 20, 1962

Astronaut John Glenn was the first man to orbit the earth for the US in the friendship 7

JFK's speech about the moon

Sep 12, 1962

JFK commits to going to the moon and a few other advancements in his speech before the national space effort

First man to do an EVA - USSR

Mar 18, 1965

Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov Was the first man to leave his spacecraft in space for the USSR

Gemini lll

Mar 23, 1965

First earth-orbiting crewed spacecraft in the gemini project

First man to do an EVA - US

Jun 3, 1965

First man to safely leave his spacecraft in space for the US was ED White

Ham the Chimp

Jan 19, 1983

The first monkey to perform tasks in space for the US