Space Race Timeline

By cody44

  • Sputnik 1

    Sputnik 1
    Sputnik 1 successfully launched and entered Earth's orbit.

  • Laika the Space Dog

    Laika the Space Dog
    Laika became the first animal launched into orbit, paving the way for human spacefligh

  • Explorer 1

    Explorer 1
    Explorer 1 became the first successfully launched satellite by the United States when it was sent to space

  • luna 1

    luna 1
    First Lunar Rover was the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Earth's Moon

  • yuri gagarin

    yuri gagarin
    he became the first human to orbit Earth. Gagarin's spacecrafthttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Gagarin

  • alan shepard

    alan shepard
    Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr. was an American astronaut test pilot. In 1961 he became the first American to travel into spacehttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Shepard

  • john glenn

    john glenn
    John Glenn astronaut and United States Senator from Ohio In 1962, he became the first American to orbit the Earthhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Glenn

  • spacewalk

    spacewalk
    A space rendezvous is an orbital maneuver during which two spacecraft arrive at the same orbit and approach vary close to each other https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_rendezvous

  • Gemini program

    Gemini program
    Project Gemini was NASA second spaceflight program Conducted between projects Mercury and Apollohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Gemini

  • Apollo 1

    Apollo 1
    first manned mission of the United States Apollo programhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollo_1

  • Apollo 8

    Apollo 8
    second manned spaceflight mission in the United States

  • Apollo 11

    Apollo 11
    spaceflight that landed the first two humans on the Moonhttps://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/apollo/missions/apollo11.html