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Space race is on
The sapce race is on-solviets are winning.
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Sputnik 2
USSR launches Sputnik 2 which carried a small dog named Laika into orbit. -
Failed
Explorer 2 is launched but fails to reach orbit. -
Mercury Seven
The "Mercury Seven" astronauts are selected by NASA. -
Astromaunts In Need
N.A.S.A. need astronauts and puts them through extremely hard test, like blowing up balloons until there out of breathe. -
U.S Launch
The US launches Discoverer XIV, its first camera equipped spy satellite. -
Soviets Launch Man in Space
Soviets launch Yuri Gagarian into orbit and lands safely. His first words: "it was hot in there".
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Safe Landing
Soviets lainch yuri gagarin into orbit and lands safely. -
Aurora 7
Scott Carpenter repeats John Glenn's flight aboard "Aurora 7". -
Cosmonaut Valentia Tereshkova
Cosmonaut Valentia Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space. -
Pictures
Ranger 7 transmits the first close range images of the Moon. -
Ed White
Ed White performs America's first spacewalk. Jim McDivitt remains in the Gemini capsule. -
Venus 3
Venus 3 is launched. It becomes the first man made object to impact Venus on March 1, 1966. -
Luna 9
Luna 9 becomes the first spacecraft to soft-land on the Moon. -
Luna 10
Luna 10 becomes the first satellite to orbit the Moon. -
Race to the Moon
3 NASA men killed in alaunchpad fire. NASA decides to call of all flights for the rest of the year. -
3 Deaths in Russia
Death of comosaut in Soviets send them to halt flights for a year. -
Zond 5
Zond 5 is launched. It carried a biological payload (including two turtles) around the Moon and returned to Earth six days later. -
Study of the spacecraft
The crew of Apollo 7 begin a 10 day mission to study the new spacecraft. -
Soyuz 4 and 5
Soyuz 4 & 5 perform the first Soviet spacecraft docking. -
First Lunar Landing
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.
