F.s// Space Race TImeline

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    Space Race

    Timespan
  • First Satellite in Space by USSR

    First Satellite in Space by USSR

    This was the first artificial satellite to orbit Earth.
  • First Animal in Space by USSR

    First Animal in Space by USSR

    The dog Laika was the first animal in space on Sputnik 2 or 3
  • FIrst Satellite in Space by USA

    FIrst Satellite in Space by USA

    The first satellite in space by the USA was the Explorer 1
  • Creation of NASA

    Creation of NASA

  • First Animal in Space by USA

    First Animal in Space by USA

    Ham the Chimpanzee
  • First Man in Space by USSR

    First Man in Space by USSR

    Gagarin was the first man in space by USSR
  • First Man in Space by The USA

    First Man in Space by The USA

    Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr. was the first U.S man to make it into space a little less than a month after the USSR man-made into space
  • JFK's Speech and Commitment to getting to the Moon

    JFK's Speech and Commitment to getting to the Moon

    JFK talks about us getting to the moon
  • First Man to do an EVA

    First Man to do an EVA

    Alexei Leonov was the first man to do it
  • First Man to do an EVA by the USA

    First Man to do an EVA by the USA

    Ed White would be the first U.S man to do an EVA
  • Gemini 5

    Gemini 5

    The goal was to fly in space for eight days
  • Gemini 6

    Gemini 6

    last less than two days, docking of two vehicles in earth orbit
  • Gemini 7

    Gemini 7

    spent 2 weeks in space
  • Gemini 9 disaster

    Gemini 9 disaster

    Command Pilot Elliot See and Pilot Charles Bassett died in a crash
  • Gemini 8

    Gemini 8

    Neil Armstrong saved Gemini 8 with some help from Scott
  • Apollo 1 disaster

    Apollo 1 disaster

    This event killed Grissom White and Chaffee
  • Apollo 7

    Apollo 7

    Walter Schirra, Donn Fisere, and Walter Cunningham
  • Apollo 8

    Apollo 8

    The first crew to successfully orbit the moon and return to earth
  • Apollo 9

    Apollo 9

    Demonstrate docked vehicles functions in an earth orbit mission
  • Apollo 10

    Apollo 10

    The second mission to orbit the moon
  • Apollo 11

    Apollo 11

    Mission was to land on the moon and it was successful. Neil Armstrong was the first man to walk on the moon.
  • Apollo 12

    Apollo 12

    It was struck by lightning twice in the first minute of take-off and it was the 2nd successful moon landing mission