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First Satelite To Orbit Earth
On Octobor 4th 1957 Russia (The Soveit Union) launched the first artifal satelite into space. The artifical satelite was called sputnik. Sputnik weighed about 184 pounds. "Sputnik circled around the earth beeping radio signals demonstrating that the Soviets have rockets that could send warheads anywhere on Earth" Sputnik triggered The Space Race between the USA and the USSR. (United States and Russia) -
First Animal In Space
Novemeber 3rd 1957 The Soviet Union launched the first animal into space. The animal they launched into space was a female dog called a Laika. -
Explorer 1
Explorer 1, the first U.S. satellite in orbit, was launched into
space. It discovered the Earth’s radiation belt. -
Explorer 2
Explorer 2 was launched and failed to reach orbit. -
Vanguard 1
Vanguard 1 satellite was launched into orbit. Although
communication with it was lost in 1964, it remains the oldest
human made satellite still in orbit. -
Luna 1
Luna 1, the first human made satellite to orbit the moon, was
launched by the USSR. -
Pioneer 4
Pioneer 4 was launched and fell into a solar orbit, becoming the
first U.S. sun orbiter. -
Sputnik 3
Sputnik 3 was launched by the USSR. -
Luna 3
Luna 3 translunar satellite was launched, orbiting the moon and
photographing 70 percent of the far side of the moon. -
Pioneer 1
Pioneer 1 became the first launch by NASA. -
First Human in Space
Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man to be in space and to orbit earth. Yri Gagari n was riding on the soviet Vostok 1, making a 108-minute orbital flight in his Vostok 1 spacecraft. -
First Human In Space
On April 12 1961 a man named Yuri Gagarin was launched into space. He was launched into space in a rocket called Soviet Vostok 1. He was the first human in space. Yuri Gagarin was starting to act strangly. The rocket was tightly closed not alowing him to get out, But when he got low enough, he finally pressed the emergancy button and was relesed with a parachute. -
First American in Space
The United States sends astronaut Alan Shepard on a 15-minute, 28-second sub-orbital flight onboard Freedom 7 this was made by the americans. Three weeks later, President John F. Kennedy vows to send men to the moon and back before the end of the decade. -
Sent a man to the moon
President John F. Kennedy sent a man to the moon and back before the end of the decade. -
First American To Orbit Earth
Febuary 20th 1962 a man named John Glenn circled the earth three times in 4 hours and 56 minutes. In 1998 John Glenn was the oldest man to fly in space. He was 77. -
First Woman In Space
On June 16th 1963 the first woman was launched into space. Her name was Valentina Tereshkova. She flew into space in Vostok 6. She only spent three days in space, she was alone. -
First Space Walk
March 18th 1965 a man named Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov was the first man to leave the ship and was alowed into space. It took him 10 minutes.
"June 3, 1965, Edward White II is the first American to walk in space on Gemini 4. He stays out 22 minutes." -
Firsts Deaths in Space
During a test on the launchpad, a fire kills Apollo 1 astronauts Virgil "Gus" Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee( the people in the pichure)Then, on April 24, 1967, the Soviet craft Soyuz 2 crashes ,killing Vladimir Komarov the first austronaut to die during flight. -
NASA
NASA was founded. -
First Moon Landing
In the flight of a rocket called Apollo 11, a man named Neil Armstrong becomes the first man to walk the moon. Buzz Aldrin was the second man to walk the moon. -
Americans Win the Race
After 4 days and and almost running out of fuel to land Apollo 11 finally successfully lands on the moon. America did it! -
Luna 2
Luna 2 was launched and hit the moon on September 13,
becoming the first human made object to hit the moon. -
First Space Rescue
An oxygen tank explodes in Apoll11 and with the help of the mission control crew the froup in the rocket has safely arrived. -
First Space Station
The Soviets launch Salyut 1, the first orbiting space station. Salyut original crew died. However, Georgi Bobroeolski, Vladislav Volkov, and Victor Patsayev got a record of 23 days in space the first record of a space station in space. -
First Americans Space Station
The first American space station, Skylab, is damaged during launch. The first of three crews arrive 11 days later for a 28-day stay just like the soviet union. -
First Mars Landing
Viking 1, was the first to arrived on mars. Viking 1 and 2 was made by the soviet union. Viking 2 thenarrived on September 1976. -
First Reusable Space Vehicle
On April 12 1981 The first reusable space shuttle was created. It was described as "launchs like a rocket, lands like a airplane." It was called a space shuttle. -
First American Woman In Space
On June 18th 1983 a woman named Sally Ride was the first American woman to be sent of to space. She was part of a group called the seventh space shuttle flight. -
First Woman to Do a Space Walk
July 17th 1984 a woman named Svetlana Savitskaya was the first woman to do a space walk. With her she had her partner, a woman named Vladimir Dzhanibekov. Svetlana was the second woman to fly durning a Soviet mission in 1982. -
First Civilian Death
On December 21st 1988 was when the first ciivilian death had occured. There were seven crew memebers in the space shuttle Challenger, the space shuttle Challenger had exploded killing all seven crew memebers. -
First Year in Space
On Decemeber 1988 Musa Manarov and Vladimir Titov completed spending 365 days in space. They broke the record. Spending 437 days and 18 hours in space. -
First Space Telescope
On April 25 1990 They put a telescope into space. But broke shortly after. The space crew helped repair the broked telescope. And it was brodcasted on live televison. -
First Spacecraft to Leave the Solar System
On Septemeber 22 1990 the first spacecraft to leave the solar system had taken off. The spacecraft was called Pioneer 10.
It was launched March 2, 1972.
Currently it is 6.5 billion miles away. -
First International Space Station (ISS) Mission
On Febuary 3rd 1994 waas The First International Space Station (ISS) Mission. "The flight of Russian Sergei Krikalev on an American space shuttle during the STS-60 mission."
A man named Dr. Norm Thagard was the first American man to stay a Russian space station. -
First American to Spend Six Months in Space
On Sepetemeber 26 1996 The first American spent six months in space. A woman named Shannon Lucid spent 186 days on the Russian space station, but 223 days in space. -
First Surface Travel in Another Planet
Arriving aboard the space probe Pathfinder, the robot Sojourner explores the surface of Mars. The six-wheeled, remote-controlled solar-powered rover send images and invenigations on what it saw on mars whoch helps scientist today to find new discoveries. -
John Glenn is back to it again.
John Glenn makes another orbit in space on the STS-95, being the oldest person to go to space.
