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sputnik
Soviet Union lunches the artificial satellite named sputnik. Sputnik means fellow-traveler. It weighed 184 pounds. -
laika
Soviet Union launches a female dog into space on sputnik 2. The dog was named laika which means barker in Russian she lived for seven days then was put down. -
Monkey in Space
Americas first action to go to space was to send animals into space. America sent a monkey into space.
Significance
The American monkey was the first animal into space.This was Americas first action to go to space. -
Luna 3
Luna 3 orbits the Moon and photographs 70% of its surface. -
Yuri Gagarin
riding on soviet vostok 1 Yuri Gagarin was first man in space. -
First Man to Orbit the Earth
Russia sent the first man into space. His name Yuri Gagarin.
Significance
Yuri Gagarin was the first man into space, but he was the third living thing in space. -
Alan Shepard
United States sends astronaut Alan Shepard on a 15 minute 28 seconds he was on Freedom 7. -
Valentine Tereshkova
soviet launch Valentine Tereshkova on vostok 6. She spends 3 days alone in space she come three miles by vostok. -
first deaths
during a test on the launch pad a fire kills Apollo 1 astronauts Virgil, Gus Grissom Ed White and Roger Chaffee. -
First Fatal Space Mission
Soyuz 1 was a manned spacecraft holding Vladimir Komarov. It was the first of the Soyuz series. Upon its return to Earth, technical problems caused its crash and the death of Komarov. It was the first fatal space flight. -
Neil Armstrong 20 Jul 1967
During Apollo 11 Neil Armstrong becomes the first man to walk on the moon then Buzz Aldrin -
First space station
The first space station Skylab was damaged during launch the first crew arrive 11 days later for a 28 day stay. -
Apollo Soyuz mission
American and Soviet space craft dock together in space in a show of cooperation during Apollo Soyuz mission. -
First woman in space 18 Jun 1983
Sally Ride is first woman in is space. she part of the crew for the seventh space shuttle flight STS 7. -
Challenger explodes
The space shuttle Challenger explodes killing all crew members including the first teacher in space. -
Hubble telescope
The Hubble telescope the primary mirror was damaged so they fixed it in 1993. -
The ISS Begins
Phase one of the ISS is complete starting on space station Mir.we now need three more things. -
Shannon Lucid 26 Sep 1996
Shannon Lucid sets the record time in space she spent 189 days on the Russian space station Mir her total days in space 223. -
Oldest Man in Space
At the age of 77 John Glenn flew aboard the space shuttle Discovery. He is now the oldest man to go into space he is also a original member of project Mercury project. -
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