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Space program 1961-1962

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    space program 1961-1962

  • First Man in Space

    First Man in Space
    the soviets have sent the first man (Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin) into space and the Americans need a man in space

  • First American in Space

    First American in Space
    Mercury Astronaut Alan B. Shepard, Jr. (right, headed to launch) blasted off in his Freedom 7 capsule atop a Mercury-Redstone rocket (left). His 15-minute sub-orbital flight made him the first American in space.

  • President Kennedy's Historic Speech

    President Kennedy's Historic Speech
    after Shepard's flight, President John F. Kennedy made his historic speech to Congress "a man on the Moon and return him safely to Earth" before the end of the decade.

  • The first day-long Soviet space flight

    The first day-long Soviet space flight
    Vostok 2 is launched by the U.S.S.R., carrying Cosmonaut Gherman Titov

  • First American in Orbit

    First American in Orbit
    John Glenn became the first man to orbit the earth - 3 times.  It was a five hour flight

  • Making three orbits

    Making three orbits
    Mercury Aurora 7 is launched with M. Scott Carpenter.

  • The first live transatlantic telecast

    The first live transatlantic telecast
    U.S. satellite Telstar 1 - the first telecommunications satellite - beams the first live transatlantic telecast.

  • The first successful planetary spacecraft

    The first successful planetary spacecraft
    U.S. Mariner 2 was the first most successful planetary spacecraft, flies past Venus, and enters a solar orbit.