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First Satellite in Space by USSR
The first official satellite to orbit Earth was Sputnik sent by the USSR -
First Animal in Space by USSR
The first animal to make orbital space flight around the Earth was Laika, the dog on the Sputnik 2 -
First Satellite in Space by USA
The Explorer 1 was launched in response to the USSR Sputnik, beginning the space race -
Creation of NASA
Created in response to the USSR Sputnik launch, NASA coordinates America's activity in space and Earth's atmosphere -
First Animal in Space by USA
The first animal sent to space by the USA was Ham the chimp who flew a suborbital flight on the Mercury-Redstone 2, part of NASA's Project Mercury -
First Man in Space by USSR
The first man in space was Yuri Gagarin who orbited Earth in the Vostok 1 -
First Man in Space by USA
Alan Shepard was the first man sent to space by the USA. He completed a suborbital flight around the Earth in the Mercury capsule, Freedom 7 -
JFK Commitment to The Moon Speech
President Kennedy gave a speech to Congress and declared that the USA would put a man on the moon before the end of the decade. -
First Man To Orbit Earth by USA
John Glenn orbited the Earth three times in the Mercury capsule Friendship 7 -
First Man to do an EVA by USSR
The first man to do an EVA was Alexei Leonov sent by the USSR. He spent 12 minutes and 9 seconds outside the Voskhod 2 spacecraft. -
Gemini 3 Mission
The Gemini 3 mission was the first crewed mission in the Gemini space program, Gus Grissom and John Young did 3 low Earth orbits in their spacecraft, nicknamed the Molly Brown -
First Man to do an EVA by USA
Ed White was the first American to complete an EVA in space. His spacewalk lasted approximately 20 minutes on the Gemini 4 mission. -
Gemini 6 Mission
Wally Schirra and Thomas Stafford preformed the first rendezvous between the Gemini 6A and Gemini 7 -
Gemini 9 Tragedy
The original crew for the Gemini 9 mission, Elliott See and Charles Bassett, was killed in a plane crash before their set launch date so Thomas Stafford and Eugene Cernan took their places as pilots. -
Gemini 11 Mission
Charles Conrad and Richard Gordon completed a rendezvous and docking with the GATV during its first orbit and completed 44 orbits total -
Apollo 1 Tragedy
The Apollo 1 mission never flew, there was a cabin fire during a launch rehearsal test that killed all three crew members, Ed White, Gus Grissom, and Roger Chaffee -
Apollo 7 First
The Apollo 7 mission was the first crewed mission NASA launched after the disaster of Apollo 1. It sent up Walter Schirra, Donn Eisele, and Walter Cunningham -
Apollo 8 First
The Apollo 8 mission was the first NASA mission to leave low Earth orbit and orbited the moon -
Apollo 9 First
The Apollo 9 mission was the first manned flight of the lunar module with pilots James McDivitt, James Scott, and Russell Schweickart -
Apollo 10 First
The Apollo 10 mission was the second trip to orbit the moon and tested all the procedures and components just short of landing to ensure everything would work when they tried to land on the moon -
Apollo 11 First
On the Apollo 11 mission, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin became the first people to land and walk on the moon's surface