Space Race

By kayleigh.oestreicher

  • Sputnik 1

    First man-made object in earths orbit

  • Explorer 1

    Our version of Sputnik

  • NASA

    NASA was created after president John F. Kennedy declared that we would send a man into space by the end of the decade.

  • Project Mercury

    Their mission was to send man into space

  • Luna 2

    First space probe to land on the moon

  • Yuri Gagnarin

    Yuri Gagnarin was the first man to ever orbit the earth

  • Alan B. Shepard

    1st American in space

  • Project Apollo

    Their mission, unlike project Mercury, was to send man to the moon

  • John Glenn

    1st American to orbit earth

  • Sergey Korol

    Sergey Korol, the chief engineer on the Soyuz project, dies suddenly

  • Apollo 1

    Three people were killed during a preflight test after a fire broke out in the command module of the Apollo 1 spacecraft

  • Apollo 8

    Apollo 8 orbits the moon

  • Apollo 11

    First man on the moon

  • Soviet attempts at moon landing

    From 1969-1972 the Soviets had four failed attempts at sending a man to the moon including an attempt in 1969 which ended in an explosion on the launch pad.

  • ASTP

    The joint Apollo-Soyuz test project symbolized the end of the space race