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Launching of Sputnik I by USSR
First artificial satellite to be put into Earth's orbit. Began the Space Race -
USSR send dog into orbit on Sputnik 2
First to ever send a living thing into space. It was a dog named Laika -
Explorer 1 first American satellite sent into space
first space craft to detect the Van Allen belt -
Yuri Gagarin first man to go into space (from USSR)
his space craft orbited earth completely. Soviet pilot and cosmonaut -
Alan Shepard first American in space
was an American naval aviator, flag officer, and test pilot
and NASA astronaut obviously -
JFK addresses Congress and challeges America to go to the moon before the end of the decade
"no nation which expects to be the leader of other nations can expect to stay behind in this race for space" -
Valentia Tereshkova first woman in space (USSR)
selected to pilot Vostok 6. She ws picked out of four hundred applicants -
Alexei Leonov was first to spacewalk
spent 12 minutes outside of his spacecraft -
Ed White was the American to spacewalk.
Jim McDivitt stayed in the capsule -
Astronauts Charles Bassett and Elliott See die in plane crash
due to bad weather -
Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee are killed in fire in capsule
during prelaunch test for Apollo 1, it caught fire inside -
Frank Borman, James Lovell, and William Anders in first manned journey to the moon
They took turns reading versus from the bible (Genises). Took earthrise picture. First to leave Earth's orbit -
Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin are first to walk on the moon
while Michael Collins orbits the Earth alone -
US's Pete Conrad and Alan Bean perform the first precision lunar landing, Pete Conrad and Alan Bean perform the first precision lunar landing,
600 feet away from Surveryor 3, put down 2 years before -
Apollo 17's returm from the moon
final manned mission in the Apollo program with crew of Commander Eugene Cernan and others
