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Sputnik 1
The Soviet Union’s Sputnik 1 was launched into an elliptical low Earth orbit from Baikonur, Kazakhstan, on October 4, 1957, making it the first successful satellite and marking the start of the Space Race. -
Space Probes
The Space Probe is a spacecrft that carries scientific instruments that can collect data, but has no human crew. -
The First Person in Space
On that day in 1961, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin (left, on the way to the launch pad) became the first human in space.Mercury astronaut Alan Shepard became the first American in space less than a month later. -
Exploring the Moon
Between 1964 & 1972, the untied states and the soviet union sne many unpiloted spacecraft to explore the moon -
Apollo 1
On January 27, 1967 tragedy struck the Apollo program when a flash fire occurred in command module during a launch pad test of the Apollo space vehicle. -
The Moon Landing
July 1969. President Kennedy's challenge to put a man on the moon. On July 16, Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins sit atop another Saturn V at Launch Complex 39A at the Kennedy Space Center. The three-stage 363-foot rocket will use its 7.5 million pounds of thrust to propel them into space and into history. -
First Space Station
The First Space staion was launched by the Soviet Union. -
The Space Shuttle Era
NASA's space shuttle fleet began setting records with its first launch on April 12, 1981. A space shuttle is like an airplane- it can fly,land, and then fly again. -
Cassini Space Probe
NASA's Cassini spacecraft recently captured images of clouds moving across the northern seas of Saturn's moon Titan.
