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Space Race Timeline

By anrubio21

  • Launching of Sputnik I -USSR

    Launching of Sputnik I -USSR
    Russia launched the first satellite into space; Sputnik 1, and the space age had properly begun .

  • Laika Sent out to space -USSR

    Laika Sent out to space -USSR
    The Russian space dog Laika became the first animal to orbit the earth

  • lost communication - USA

    lost communication - USA
    Vanguard 1 satellite was launched into orbit . Although
    communication with it was lost in 1964, it still remains the oldest
    human made satellite still in orbit

  • NASA -USA

    NASA -USA
    NASA was founded . NASA has pushed the boundaries of human explorations .

  • human made satellite -USSR

    human made satellite -USSR
    Luna 1, the first human made satellite to orbit the moon, was
    launched by the USSR.

  • LAUNCHED & Fallen -USA

    LAUNCHED & Fallen -USA
    Pioneer 4 was launched and fell into a solar orbit, becoming the
    first U.S. sun orbiter .

  • Russians make it first . -USSR

    Russians make it first . -USSR
    Both American and Russian scientists were in a race to get a spacecraft to the Moon; the Russians made it first

  • Human object made it to the moon - USSR

    Human object made it to the moon - USSR
    Luna 2 was launched and hit the moon on September 13,
    becoming the first human made object to hit the moon.

  • luna 3 launched - USSR

    luna 3 launched - USSR
    Luna 3 translunar satellite was launched , orbiting the moon and
    photographing 70% percent of the far side of the moon .

  • fist US camera - USA

    fist US camera - USA
    Discoverer XIV launched the first U.S camera equipped corona spy satellite .

  • First Us austronaut - USA

    First Us austronaut - USA
    Mercury Freedom 7 carried Alan Shepard, the first U.S.
    astronaut into space in a suborbital flight .

  • soviet space flight - USSR

    soviet space flight - USSR
    Vostok 2 was launched by the USSR carrying Gherman Titov The first day long Soviet space flight.

  • 3 orbits - USA

    3 orbits - USA
    Mercury Aurora 7 was launched with M. Scott Carpenter,
    making three orbits around .

  • First Woman in Space ? - USSR

    First Woman in Space ? - USSR
    Vostok 6 carried Valentia Tereshkova , the first woman in space orbited the Earth 48 times .

  • Gemini 3 - 3 orbits - USA

    Gemini 3 - 3 orbits - USA
    First staffed flight of the Gemini program, Gemini 3 carrying
    Virgil I , Grissom & John W. Young It made 3 orbits
    around the Earth

  • Return from the moon -

    Return from the moon -
    apollo's 17 return from the moon . last three austronauts to travel to the moon splash down safely i n the pacific ocean .