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Sputnik 1
On October 4th 1957 Russia launched Sputnik 1, this was the first satilight launched from Earth. The launching of this satilight worried the U.S. and startrd the space race -
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Space Exploration
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Explorer 1
One year later the U.S. launched the explorer 1 now the U.S. was in the space race. -
NASA
The U.S. goverment formed the National Aeronautics and Space administration (NASA) to be incharge of the space program. Now the U.S. had goverment agency 100% devoted to space exploration -
First human in space
Russia launched Yuri Gagarin abord the Vostog 1 to be the first human in space -
to the moon
President John F. Kennedy gave a speech saying that in the next decade the U.S.'s goal was to land a man on the moon and retern him safely to Earth. This would ultamently win the win the space race. -
First American to orbit Earth
John Glenn was thr first American to orbit Earth, he was abord the Friendship 7. -
Apollo 11
In 1969 the U.S. launched the first manned mission to the moon. The crew of Apollo brought lots of sampels of things on the moon now we could study the moon first hand. -
last moon mission
In December of 1972 Apollo 17 went into space and was the last mission to the moon. now that we were done on the moos we would start exploring other parts of space -
New Spacecraft
In 1981 NASA started devloping space shuttles. These spacecraft could be reused so that NASA wouldn't have to build somthing new every mission. -
The International Space Station
In 1998 the first segment of the Intre national Space station(ISS) was launched, and it woukd take 10 years to fully assembel the station. Now all the countries could work together to study space.
