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Sputnik 1
USSR launches the first satellite to be in space.Starts the Space Race. -
Sputnik 2
Space RaceUSSR sends Laika the dog into space to prove animals can survive.With no way to bring her back to earth they had to gas her. -
Explorer 1
Space RaceFirst American satellite to enter space. -
N.A.S.A.
U.S. creates The National Aeronautics and Space Administrations is created.Replaces the National Advisory Committee on Aeronautics. -
Vostok 1
Space RaceUSSR sends Yuri Gagarin into space, he becomes the first man in space, he orbits Earth once. -
Freedom 7
Alan Shepard is the first american in space.15 years later he was the fifth man on the moon, and the first man to play golf on the moon. -
Vostok 6
Space.comUSSR sends Valentina Tereshkova to space, she becomes the first woman in space, she orbits Earth 48 times. -
Plane Crash
About.comUSSR's first man in space, Yuri Gagarin dies in a plane crash at thirty four years old. -
Zond 5
Space RaceUSSR launched Zond carrying a biological payload including two turtles. -
Apollo 11
Space RaceU.S. sends Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin to land on the moon. Michael Collins stayed in the ship and orbited around the moon.