Nevaeh's Space Race Timeline

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  • First animal in space by USSR

    First animal in space by USSR

    The Soviet Union sent a dog nicknamed Laika aboard the spacecraft Sputnik.
  • First satellite in space by USSR

    First satellite in space by USSR

    The Soviet Union launched the earth's first artificial satellite, Sputnik. Citizens had hoped the United States would accomplish the advancement first.
  • First satellite in space by USA

    First satellite in space by USA

    The USA sent its first satellite Explorer 1 that was part of the USA's participation in the International Geophysical Year.
  • Creation of NASA

    Creation of NASA

    The Creation of NASA or ( The National Aeronautics and Space Act), was intended to provide for research into problems of flight within and outside the earth's atmosphere.
  • First animal in space by USA

    First animal in space by USA

    Ham, a chimpanzee, also known as Ham the Chimp, was the first Great Ape launched in space.
  • First man in space by USSR

    First man in space by USSR

    Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut who became the first human to journey into outer space. Travelling in the Vostok 1 capsule, Gagarin.
  • First man in space by USA

    First man in space by USA

    Alan B. Shepard became the first American in space during a suborbital flight aboard his Mercury capsule named Freedom 7.
  • First man to orbit earth by USA

    First man to orbit earth by USA

    Astronaut John H. Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth during the three-orbit Mercury-Atlas 6 mission, aboard the spacecraft he named Friendship 7.
  • JFK's speech about going to the moon

    JFK's speech about going to the moon

    "We choose to go to the Moon", officially titled the Address at Rice University on the Nation's Space Effort, is a September 12, 1962, speech by United States President John F. Kennedy to bolster public support for his proposal to land a man on the Moon before 1970.
  • Important Gemini mission #1

    Important Gemini mission #1

    They helped NASA understand and master the challenges of spacewalking.
  • First man to do an EVA by USSR

    First man to do an EVA by USSR

    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.
  • First man to do an EVA by USA

    First man to do an EVA by USA

    US astronaut Edward White (1930–67) was the first American to perform an “extra-vehicular activity” (EVA), or spacewalk.
  • Important Gemini mission #2

    Important Gemini mission #2

    This mission included the first American spacewalk. The objective of the mission was to test the performance of the astronauts and capsule and to evaluate work procedures, schedules, and flight planning for an extended length of time in space.
  • Original Gemini 9 Tragedy

    Original Gemini 9 Tragedy

    The original crew for Gemini 9, command pilot Elliot See and pilot Charles Bassett, were killed in a crash on February 28, 1966, while flying a T-38 jet trainer to the McDonnell Aircraft plant in St. Louis, Missouri to inspect their spacecraft.
  • Important Gemini mission #3

    Important Gemini mission #3

    The primary mission objective were to perform rendezvous and four docking tests with the Agena target vehicle and to execute an ExtraVehicular Activity (EVA) experiment.
  • Apollo 1 tragedy

    Apollo 1 tragedy

    Apollo 1 was expected to fly to Earth orbit later in 1967 with astronauts Gus Grissom, Roger Chaffee and Ed White on board. During a test on the launch pad, however, a fire erupted and rapidly asphyxiated all three astronauts.
  • What was Apollo 7-11 known for

    What was Apollo 7-11 known for

    Apollo 7 (October 11 – 22, 1968) was the first crewed flight in NASA's Apollo program, and saw the resumption of human spaceflight by the agency after the fire that killed the three Apollo 1 astronauts during a launch rehearsal test on January 27, 1967.