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Sputnik 1
Soviet union launched earths first satellite -
Laika Sputnik 2
Laika died during the mission, as the spacecraft was not designed to bring her back. (I'm sobbing right now) -
Explorer 1
explorer orbited 1,594 miles -
Creation of NASA
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Ham the Chimp
he successfully completed a series of trained tasks during his suborbital flight. -
Yuri Gagarin
duration of flight was 108 minutes -
Alan Shepard
flight was 15 minutes and it was a suborbital flight -
Friendship 7 - John H Glenn
orbited earth 3 times in approximately 5 hours -
JFK Speech
"We choose to go to the moon," -
Gemini 1
Un-crewed test flight to see the structural integrity and it disintegrated within the 64th orbital pass -
Alexei Leonov
spent 12 minutes 9 seconds outside of the spacecraft -
Ed White
Used a handheld oxygen-jet gun to maneuver for the first three minutes, then twisted his body and pulled on a 25-foot umbilical cord to the capsule -
Gemini 4
James McDivitt and Edward White are the astronauts aboard Gemini 4 test the performance of the astronauts and capsule they had a 4-day, 62-orbit, 98-hr flight -
Gemini 7
Frank Borman and Jim had a 14 day flight to demonstrate a 2-week flight -
Gemini 9
Elliot See and pilot Charles Bassett, were killed in a crash on February 28, 1966 flying to McDonnell Aircraft plant in St. Louis, Missouri -
Apollo 1
Virgil Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee lost their lives as a fire swept through the command module. -
Apollo 7
Walter Schirra, Donn Eisele, and Walter Cunningham
First crewed mission also first to broadcast from space -
Apollo 8
Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders, first to leave Earth's gravitational pull to orbit the Moon -
Apollo 9
James A. McDivitt, David R. Scott, Russell L. Schweickart, third human spaceflight of NASA's Apollo program, and the first flight of the entire Apollo spacecraft -
Apollo 10
Thomas P. Stafford, John W. Young, Eugene A. Cernan, orbited the moon for 8 days -
Apollo 11 - Moon Landing
Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin. first to reach and touch the moon