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Launching of Sputnik I (USSR)
USSR launces Sputnik 1 -
Sputnik 2 and Lakita (USSR)
USSR launches Sputnik 2 which carried a small dog named Laika into orbit. -
Explorer 1 (USA)
Explorer 1, the first American satellite to reach orbit, is launched. It carried scientific equipment that lead to the discovery of the Van Allen radiation belt. -
Luna 1 (USSR)
Luna 1 is launched by the USSR. It is the first man made object to orbit the Sun. -
First American in Space (USA)
Alan B. Shepard becomes the first American in space. -
Before end of decade (USA)
President John F. Kennedy addresses Congress and challenges the nation to go to the Moon before the end of the decade. -
John Glenn (USA)
John Glenn orbits the Earth three times. -
L. Gordon (USA)
L. Gordon Cooper spends 34 hours in space. He is the last American to fly in space alone. -
assianation of JFK (USA)
President JFK is assasinated. -
Alexei Leonov (USSR)
Alexei Leonov spends 12 minutes outside of his voskhod spacecraft performing the first space walk. -
Venus 3 (USSR)
Venus 3 is launched and becomes the first man made object to impact Venus on march 1 1966 -
Apollo 7 mission (USA)
The crew of Apollo 7 begin a 10 day mission to study the new spacecraft. -
Neil Armstrong and Buzz (USA)
Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin become the first men to walk on the Moon while crewmate Michael Collins orbits around the moon once. -
Pete Conrad (USA)
Pete Conrad and Alan Bean perform the first precision lunar landing, touching down just 600 feet from the Surveyor 3 probe that arrived two years earlier. -
Apollo 17's Return(USA)
Apollo 17 returns ffrom the moon.
