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introducing "sputnik"
On October 4, 1957, the USSR launched Sputnik, the first artificial satellite to orbit Earth. The satellite, an 85-kilogram (187-pound) metal sphere the size of a basketball, was launched on a huge rocket and orbited Earth at 29,000 kilometers per hour (18,000 miles per hour) for three months. -
enter in explorer 1
Explorer 1 was the first satellite launched by the United States and was part of the U.S. participation in the International Geophysical Year. The mission followed the first two satellites the previous year; the Soviet Union's Sputnik 1 and Sputnik 2, beginning the Cold War Space Race between the two nations. -
the creation of NASA
The U.S. Congress passes legislation establishing the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), a civilian agency responsible for coordinating America's activities in space, on July 29, 1958. ... NASA was created in response to the Soviet Union's October 4, 1957 launch of its first satellite, Sputnik I. -
what the dog doin?
The first animal to make an orbital spaceflight around the Earth was the dog Laika, aboard the Soviet spacecraft Sputnik 2 on 3 November 1957. -
monkeys in space?
Ham, also known as Ham the Chimp and Ham the Astrochimp, was a chimpanzee and the first great ape launched into space. -
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut who became the first human to journey into outer space. -
Alan B Shepard
Alan B. Shepard became the first American in space during a suborbital flight aboard his Mercury capsule named Freedom 7. -
the speech that reaches the stars
Kennedy delivered a stirring speech before a joint session of Congress. In it, he declared his intention to focus U.S. efforts on landing humans on the moon within a decade. His words ignited the work of a decade and ultimately achieved the dream of a moon landing, via the Apollo missions. -
coming in Glen Jr.!
the first U.S. astronaut to orbit Earth, completing three orbits in 1962. -
gemini mission 1964-1967
the Gemini mission had four main goals:
-to test astronauts' ability to fly long-duration missions.
-to understand how spacecraft could rendezvous and dock in orbit around earth and moon.
-to perfect re-entry and landing methods.
-to further understand the effects of space flights -
cosmonaut Alexei Leonov
The first EVA was performed on March 18, 1965, by Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, who spent 12 minutes and 9 seconds outside the Voskhod 2 spacecraft. -
Ed White
The first American spacewalk was performed on June 3, 1965, by Ed White from the second crewed Gemini flight, Gemini IV, for 21 minutes. -
apollo 1 mission
The Apollo program was put on hold while an exhaustive investigation was made of the accident. It was concluded that the most likely cause was a spark from a short circuit in a bundle of wires that ran to the left and just in front of Grissom's seat -
soyuz 1
three months after the Apollo 1 fire, Vladimir Komarov became fatally in space flight when Soyuz 1 crashed into the earth on a mission to the moon. one of the solar panels failed to deploy which cut his power off and his parachutes failed to deploy, causing him to crash violently into the ground in southeastern russia. -
apollo 7 mission
Apollo 7 accomplished many firsts, the first person in American space flight, the first live tv downlink from an American spacecraft, the first Saturn rocket to launch a crew into space, and the first time hot food was available to a crew in space. -
apollo 8 mission
Apollo 8 achieved the first manned mission launched on Saturn V, the first manned launch from NASA's new moon port. first pictures are taken by humans of the earth from deep space and the first live tv coverage of the lunar surface. -
apollo 9 mission
Apollo 9 mission was the first manned flight of all apollo lunar hardware in Earth orbit and the first manned flight of the lunar module. -
apollo 10 mission
the Apollo 10 mission encompassed all aspects of an actual lunar landing, except the landing aspect. it was the first flight of a complete, crewed Apollo spacecraft to operate around the moon. -
apollo 11 mission
Apollo 11 was the mission that marked the first humans to ever be on the moon, commander Neil Armstrong and lunar module pilot buzz aldrin will go down in history for their remarkable accomplishments in making it to the moon.