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First satellite launched by USSR
Sputnik I -
First animal in space by USSR
Dog Laika -
First satellite in space by USA
Explorer 1 -
Creation of NASA
Keith Glennan
Hugh L. Dryden
The National Aeronautics Space Administrations -
First animal in space by USA
Ham the Chimp -
First man in Space by USSR
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin -
First man in space by USA
Pilot Alan Shepard -
First man to orbit Earth by USA
Astronaut John H Glenn -
JFK's speech and commitment to getting to the moon
"We choose to go to the Moon" - JFK -
First man to do an EVA by USSR
Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov -
Three of the Gemini missions
Gemini 3 test the basic system of Gemini spacecraft and make the first orbit changing maneuvers in space -
First man to do an EVA by USA
Astronaut Edward White -
Three of the Gemini missions
Gemini 4 mission included the first space walk -
Three of the Gemini Missions
Gemini 8 marked the first successful dual launch and landing -
Tragedies that led up getting to the moon
Gemini 9 crew, killed in a crash while in flight of a T-38 -
Tragedies that led up getting to the moon
Apollo I crew, killed during a test launch due to a fire erupting -
The Launch of Apollo 7
Was the first crewed flight in NASA's Apollo program -
The Launch of Apollo 8
First manned flight to the moon -
The Launch of Apollo 9
test flight of lunar module in earth orbit -
The Launch of Apollo 10
the second flight of a human crew to the Moon and the dress rehearsal for the next Apollo mission, in which astronauts would first walk on the lunar surface. -
The Launch of Apollo 11
The first people to land on the moon and walk on The lunar surface
