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First satellite in space by USSR
Soviets launched first Satellite into space called Sputnik 1 -
First animal in space by USSR
Soviets send a dog named Laika into space -
First satellite in space by USA
Explorer 1 was the first US Satellite into space -
Creation of NASA
President Eisenhower signed the National Aeronautics and Space Act creating NASA -
First animal in space by USA (Ham the chimp)
Ham the chimp was the first animal for the US launched into space. -
First man in space by USSR
Yuri Gagarin was the first man into space -
First man in space by USA
Alan Shepard was the first man in space by the US -
First man to orbit Earth by USA
John Glenn was the first US man to orbit the earth -
Gemini 3
This mission had a crew John Young and Gus Grissom they orbited the earth -
Gemini 1
Uncrewed test flight to test the spaceship -
Gemini 2
Second space mission by NASA in this program similar to the first to test the spaceship. -
First man to do an EVA by USSR
Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov was the first soviet to do an EVA -
JFK's speech and commitment to getting to the moon
President Kennedy declared we will reach the moon before the end of the decade -
First man to do an EVA by USA
Ed White during the Gemini 4 mission. -
Original Gemini 9 crew
Elliot See and Charles Basset were killed in a training aircraft -
Apollo 1 crew
Virgil Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee where killed when the command module caught on fire. -
Apollo 7
The first crewed spaceflight in the Apollo program. -
Apollo 8
The first crewed spacecraft to leave low Earth orbit and the first human spaceflight to reach the Moon and orbit it. -
Apollo 9
It was the first crewed flight of all Apollo lunar hardware, as well as the first crewed flight of the lunar module -
Apollo 10
It was a complete staging of the Apollo 11 mission without actually landing on the Moon -
Apollo 11
First man to walk on the moon.