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First satellite in space by USSR
The Soviet Union launched the earth's first artificial satellite, Sputnik I. -
First animal in space by USSR
The Soviet Union launches the first animal to orbit the earth into space a dog nicknamed Laika aboard the Sputnik 2. -
First satellite in space by USA
Explorer 1 was the first satellite launched by the United States -
Creation of NASA
President Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act into law -
First animal in space by USA
Ham made a publicity splash after NASA stipulated his trip which NASA required before the United States could put its first person in space. -
First man in space by USSR
Yuri Gagarin, in full Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin, Soviet cosmonaut who became the first man to travel into space. -
First man in space by USA
He became the first American man in space, when he piloted the Mercury spacecraft Freedom 7 -
First man to orbit Earth by USA
astronaut John H. Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth during the three-orbit Mercury-Atlas 6 mission -
JFK's speech and commitment to getting to the moon
"We choose to go to the Moon", officially titled the Address at Rice University on the Nation's Space Effort by United States President John F. Kennedy to the public support for his proposal to land a man on the Moon before 1970. -
First Gemini mission
First flight without a crew. -
First man to do an EVA by USSR
by Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, who spent 12 minutes and 9 seconds outside the Voskhod 2 spacecraft. -
First Gemini mission with crew
The Gemini spacecraft carried a two-astronaut crew. Ten Gemini crews and 16 individual astronauts flew low Earth orbit -
First man to do an EVA by USA
US astronaut Edward White was the first American to perform an “extra-vehicular activity” , White opened the hatch of his Gemini 4 spacecraft and pulled himself out into space. -
Gemini 9
Gemini 9A was a 1966 crewed spaceflight in NASA's Gemini program.The Atlas malfunctioned in flight and the ATV failed to reach orbit. -
Lst Gemini mission a
The Gemini spacecraft carried a two-astronaut crew. -
Apollo 1
Apollo 1, initially designated AS-204, was intended to be the first crewed mission of the Apollo program, tragedy struck the Apollo program when a flash fire occurred in command. -
Apollo 7
Apollo 7 was the first crewed flight in NASA's Apollo program -
Apollo 8
Apollo 8 was the first crewed spacecraft to leave low Earth orbit and the first human spaceflight to reach the Moon. -
Apollo 9
Was the first flight of the full Apollo spacecraft -
Apollo 10
It was the first flight of a complete, crewed Apollo spacecraft to operate around the Moon. -
Apollo 11
Apollo 11 was the American spaceflight that first landed humans on the Moon.