Space Race

Luna 1

Jan 2, 1959

Plan was to hit the moon - missed and flew by

Vostok 1

Apr 12, 1961

First person in space - Yuri Gagarin

Mercury-Redstone 3 (Freedom 7) (MR-3)

May 5, 1961

First US person in space - Alan Shepard

Vostok 2

Aug 6, 1961

First flight more than 24 hours - Gherman Titov

Vostok 5

Jun 14, 1963

First long-duration mission - Valery Bykovsky

Vostok 6

Jun 16, 1963

First woman in space - Valentina Tereshkova

Voskhod 2

Mar 18, 1965

First space walk - Aleksei Leonov & Pavel Belyayev

Apollo 8

Dec 21, 1968

First people to orbit the moon - Frank Borman, James Lovell & William Anders

Apollo 11

Jul 20, 1969

First people to land on the moon - Neil Armstrong & Buzz Aldrin