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The space race
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The Space Act is ammended
The Space Act "The Congress hereby declares that it is the policy of the United States that activities in space should be devoted to peaceful purposes for the benefit of all mankind." -
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NASA is formed
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The Mercury 7
only astronaut group with members that flew on all classes of NASA manned orbital spacecraft of the 20th century -
The Pioneer 1 is launched by NASA
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Yuri Gagrin
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JFK makes his famous moon speech
The Speech
In this speech JFK announces that he has the goal of sending a man to the moon before the end of the decade. This goal was due in part to the fact that USSR was currently beating us in what had been deamed the "space-race" -
The gemini project is born
Gemini overviewGemini Goals of the Gemini project To subject man and equipment to space flight up to two weeks in duration. To rendezvous and dock with orbiting vehicles and to maneuver the docked combination by using the target vehicle's propulsion system; To perfect methods of entering the atmosphere and landing at a preselected point on land. Its -
Apollo 11 landing
flight journal www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMINSD7MmT4 This is the historic moon landing flight. This is the day that Apollo 11th landed on the moon -
Apollo 13
7th mission of the apollo. Third intened to land on the moon. It never landed on the moon and the mission was aborted -
Apollo–Soyuz Test Project
The first joint U.S.–Soviet space flight, and the last flight of an Apollo spacecraft. Its primary purpose was as a symbol of the policy of détente that the two superpowers were pursuing at the time, and marked the end of the Space Race between them that began in 1957.
