space adventurers

By LBMJ-THUG
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    SPACE RACE

  • Sputnick 1

    First man made object to orbit Earth
    Launched by the U.S.S.R
    Remained in orbit until January 4, 1958

  • Sputnick 3

    Launced by U.S.S.R

  • Tiros 1.

    First successful weather sattlite
    Launched by the United States

  • US Ranger 7

    Relays the first close-range photos of the Moon (JEFF UBETHCA)

  • The first space walk

    Made from Soviet Voskhod 2 by Cosmonaut Alexei A. Leonov
    Duration 12 minutes

  • Soviet Soyuz 1

    Carried Vladimir M. Komarov
    Crashed on April 24

  • Salyut 1

    Is launched by the U.S.S.R
    Orbited until May 28, 1973

  • Viking 2

    Lands on Mars on the Plain of Utopia
    Discovered water frost
  • Pioneer 11

    Pioneer 11

    Reaches Saturn
    Flying to within 13,000 miles and taking a close up photograph

  • Asteriod XM1

    Passes within 65,000 miles of Earth

  • Cosmonaut Valeriy Polyakov

    Returns to Earth after 438-day mission aboard Russian space station

  • Endeavor

    Lifts off to rendezvous with Mir
    Eight U.S. docking with the Russian space station and the first by a shuttle other than Atlantis.

  • Shenzhou

    Launched by China
    First unmanned test of their manned capsule

  • Atlantis

    Lifts off for the ISS
    Carring the U.S.'s Destiny lavoratory module

  • Endeavour

    Launched carring the Raffaello logistics module back to the ISS with new supples