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launch of spuninck 1
This began the competetion agianst the US and ussr to have doments. -
First Animal in Space
The Soviet Union launches a female dog. She was the first mammal successfully recovered from spaceflight. -
Pioneer 1
launched to a hight of 70,700 miles.First spacecraft
launched by the 11day old national aeronautics and
spce administration. -
First American in space
Alan B. Shepard becomes the first American in space. It made the people of the US know that we are making progress. -
John Glenn orbits the Earth
Circles Earth three times in 4 hours and 56 minutes. He followed two Russian cosmonauts in making this early orbit of our plane -
First Woman in Space
Valentina Tereshkova on Vostok 6. She spends three days alone in space. Her spacecraft comes within three miles of Valeri Bykovsky in Vostok 5. -
L. Gordon Cooper spends 34 hours in space.
He is the last American to fly in space alone. -
First Space Walk
Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov takes the first space walk,
a ten-minute tethered excursion outside Voshkod 2 -
Lunar Orbiter 1
Enters orbit around the Moon and takes the first
picture of the Earth from that distance. -
Neil Armstrong and EdwinBuzz Aldrin
First men to walk on the Moon while crewmate Michael
Collins orbits around the Moon alone.
