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Sputnik 1
Sputnik 1 was launched on October 4th 1957 at 7:28 PM, from site No.1/5, while it had a bunch of problems when it first launched it did enter orbit -
Explorer 1
The first of the United States was the explorer 1, it was part of the International Geophysical Year.The mission followed the first two satellites the previous year; the Soviet Union's Sputnik 1 and 2, beginning the Cold War Space Race between the two nations. -
Ham the Astrochimp
Ham was a chimpanzee and the first hominid launched into space, as part of America's space program. Hams was launched on the MR-2. Ham's capsule splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean and was recovered by a rescue ship later that day. He only suffered a bruised nose. His flight was 16 minutes and 39 seconds long -
Yuri Gagarin
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was born on 9 March 1934 in Klushino, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union, died on 27 March 1968. He was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut. He was the first human to journey into outer space when his Vostok spacecraft completed an orbit of the Earth on 12 April 1961. -
Alan Shepard
Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr. was born on November 18, 1923 in Derry, New Hampshire but sadly passed away on July 21, 1998. He was an American astronaut, naval aviator, test pilot, and businessman. In 1961 he became the first American to travel into space. -
John Glenn
John Herschel Glenn Jr. was born on July 18, 1921 in Cambridge, Ohio but he passed away on December 8, 2016 due to age. He was a United States Marine Corps aviator, engineer, astronaut, and United States Senator from Ohio. In 1962, he became the first American to orbit the Earth, circling it three times. -
Project Gemini
Project Gemini was NASA's second human spaceflight program. Conducted between projects Mercury and Apollo, Gemini started in 1961 and concluded in 1966. The Gemini spacecraft carried a two-astronaut crew. Ten Gemini crews flew low Earth orbit (LEO) missions during 1965 and 1966, putting the United States in the lead during the Cold War Space Race against the Soviet Union. -
Apollo 1
Apollo 1, initially designated AS-204, was the first manned mission of the United States Apollo program, which had as its ultimate goal a manned lunar landing.[1] The low Earth orbital test of the Apollo Command/Service Module never made its target launch date of February 21, 1967. A cabin fire during a launch rehearsal test on January 27 at Cape Kennedy Air Force Station Launch Complex 34 killed all three crew members. -
Apollo 8
Apollo 8, the second manned spaceflight mission in the United States Apollo space program, was launched on December 21, 1968, and became the first manned spacecraft to leave Earth orbit, reach the Earth's Moon, orbit it and return safely to Earth. The three-astronaut crew — Commander Frank Borman, Command Module Pilot James Lovell, and Lunar Module Pilot William Anders — became the first humans to: travel beyond low Earth orbit. -
Apollo 11
Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that landed the first two humans on the Moon. Mission commander Neil Armstrong and pilot Buzz Aldrin, both American, landed the lunar module Eagle on July 20, 1969, at 20:18 UTC. Armstrong became the first human to step onto the lunar surface six hours after landing on July 21 at 02:56:15 UTC. -
Lunokhod 1
Lunokhod 1 which means moon walker in Russian.The vehicle was the first of two unmanned lunar rovers landed on the Moon by the Soviet Union as part of its Lunokhod program. The Luna 17 spacecraft carried Lunokhod 1 to the Moon in 1970. Lunokhod 1 was the first remote-controlled robot "rover" to freely move across the surface of an astronomical object beyond the Earth. Lunokhod 0 , the previous and first attempt to do so, launched in February 1969 but failed to reach orbit.
