The Space Race

By Mukhriz

  • Sputnik 1

    Oct. 4 - USSR launches Sputnik 1. sputnik is a sattelite and sputnik means sattelite in russian. the mission type is atmospheric studies and its the sattelite of earth.

  • Sputnik 2

    Nov. 3 - USSR launches Sputnik 2 which carried a small dog named Laika into orbit. sputnik 2 mission type is earth science.

  • Explorer 1

    Jan. 31 - Explorer 1, the first American satellite to reach orbit, is launched. It carried scientific equipment that lead to the discovery of the Van Allen radiation belt.

  • explorer 2

    Mar. 5 - Explorer 2 is launced but it fails to reach orbit. explorer 2 mission type is earth science and its earth sattelite

  • The Vangard 1

    Mar. 17 -The Vanguard 1 satellite is launched. It continues to function for 3 years. the mission type is earth science and its the earth satelite.

  • Sputnik 3

    May 15 -Sputnik 3 is launched, the mission type is earth science and its earth satterlite

  • The National Aeronautics

    Oct. 1 - The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is formed, it replaces the National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics (NASA)

  • pioneer 1

    Oct. 11 - Pioneer 1 is launched to a height of 70,700 miles.mission type is flyby and the flyby is the moon.

  • Luna

    Jan. 2 - Luna 1 is launched by the USSR. It is the first man made object to orbit the Sun.the mission type is planetary science and the flyby is the moon.

  • Pioneer 4

    Mar. 3 - Pioneer 4 is launched on a Earth-Moon trajectory. It passed within 37,000 miles of the Moon before falling into a solar orbit. mission type lunar flyby and the sattelite of the sun

  • Mercury Seven

    Apr. 2 - The "Mercury Seven" astronauts are selected by NASA. Back row: Shepard, Grissom, Cooper;
    front row: Schirra, Slayton, Glenn

  • Luna 2

    Sep. 12 - Luna 2 is launched. It impacts the Moon on September 13, becoming the first man-made object to do so. mission type is lunar science, lunar science and its the moon satelite.

  • Luna 3

    Oct. 4 - Luna 3 orbits the Moon and photographs 70% of its surface. mission type is planet science, lunar flyby and earths saterlite.

  • Tiros 1

    Apr. 1 - Tiros 1, the first successful weather satellite, is launched and its a weather sattelite.

  • Discover

    Aug. 18 - The US launches Discoverer XIV, its first camera equipped spy satellite

  • Yuri Gararin

    Apr. 12 - Yuri Gagarin orbits the Earth once and becomes the first man in space and hes been in space for 1 hour and 48 mins.

  • Alan.B

    May 5 - Alan B. Shepard becomes the first American in space and he been in space for 216 hours and 57 minutes.

  • President john f

    May 25 - President John F. Kennedy addresses Congress and challenges the nation to go to the Moon before the end of the decade.

  • Gus grison

    Jul. 21 - Gus Grissom is launched on a sub-orbital flight. His Liberty-Bell capsule is lost when it fills with water and sinks after splashdown

  • Gherman titov

    Aug. 6 - German Titov spends a day in space aboard Vostok 2

  • gemini

    Dec. 7 - NASA announces the Gemini Program

  • john glenn

    Feb. 20 - John Glenn orbits the Earth three times

  • Scott carpener and john glenn

    May 24 - Scott Carpenter repeats John Glenn's flight aboard "Aurora 7".

  • moon program

    Sep. 12 - President Kennedy gives a speech at Rice University reaffirming the importance of the Moon program

  • Group 2

    Sep. 17 - NASA selects its second group of astronauts Back row: See, McDivitt, Lovell, White, & Stafford.
    Front row: Conrad, Borman, Armstrong, & Young

  • Walter Schirra

    Oct. 3 - Walter Schirra orbits the Earth six times and time in space 13 days 7 hours and 12 minutes

  • Mariner 2

    Dec. 14 - Mariner 2 flies past Venus and enters a solar orbit

  • L.gordon

    May 15 -L. Gordon Cooper spends 34 hours in space. He is the last American to fly in space alone.

  • Valintina tereshkova

    Jun. 16 -Cosmonaut Valentia Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space and been in space for 2 days 24 hours and 12 minutes

  • NASA group 3

    Oct. 17 -A third group of NASA astronauts is selected

  • Ranger 7 and the moon

    Jul. 31 -Ranger 7 transmits the first close range images of the Moon and the mission type is lunar science. its the satelite of the moon.

  • Space walk

    1965 Mar. 18 - Alexei Leonov spends 12 minutes outside of his Voskhod spacecraft performing the first spacewalk

  • GUS AND JOHN

    Mar. 23 - Gus Grissom and John Young fly the first manned Gemini spacecraft

  • SPACE WALK

    Jun. 3 - Ed White performs America's first spacewalk. Jim McDivitt remains in the Gemini capsule

  • Walter and thomas

    Dec. 15 - Walter Schirra and Thomas Stafford, in their Gemini 6 spacecraft, make the first space rendezvous with Gemini 7

  • MARINEER 4

    Jul. 14 - Mariner 4 returns close ranger images of Mars

  • Venus 3

    Nov. 16 - Venus 3 is launched. It becomes the first man made object to impact Venus on March 1, 1966

  • frank and james

    Dec. 4 - Frank Borman and James Lovell begin a two week stay in Earth orbit aboard Gemini 7.

  • Luna 9

    1966 Feb. 3 - Luna 9 becomes the first spacecraft to soft-land on the Moon

  • Luna 10

    Apr. 3 - Luna 10 becomes the first satellite to orbit the Moon

  • Surveyor 1

    Jun. 2 - Surveyor 1 soft-lands on the Moon

  • Lunar orbiter 1

    Aug. 14 - Lunar Orbiter 1 enters orbit around the Moon and takes the first picture of the Earth from that distance

  • Gemini 12

    Nov. 11 - Gemini 12, the last flight of the Gemini Program, launches with James Lovell and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin aboard

  • dead

    1967 Jan. 27 - Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee are killed when a fire ignites in their Apollo 1 capsule while performing a test on the launch pad

  • Venera 4

    Oct. 18 - Venera 4 transmits data about the atmosphere of Venus.

  • turi gararin dead

    1968 Mar. 27 - Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, dies in a plane crash

  • apollo 7

    Oct. 11 - The crew of Apollo 7 begin a 10 day mission to study the new spacecraft.

  • Zond 5

    Sep. 15 - Zond 5 is launched. It carried a biological payload (including two turtles) around the Moon and returned to Earth six days later

  • earth to moon

    Dec. 21 - Frank Borman, James Lovell, and William Anders begin the first manned journey from the Earth to the Moon. On Christmas Eve they take turns reading Genesis in a broadcast heard around the world.

  • docking

    Jan. 16 - Soyuz 4 & 5 perform the first Soviet spacecraft docking

  • first mens to alk on the moon

    Jul. 20 - Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin become the first men to walk on the Moon while crewmate Michael Collins orbits around the Moon alone.

  • pete and alan

    Nov. 19 - Pete Conrad and Alan Bean perform the first precision lunar landing, touching down just 600 feet from the Surveyor 3 probe that arrived two years earlier