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The Vanguard TV3 Satelitte
The Vanguard TV3 Satellite launch occurred in Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. It was broadcasted live on television in front of a U.S. audience. The Vanguard TV3 satellite took off, and crashed two seconds later. -
The Explorer 1 Satellite
The U.S. successfully launch its first satellite on a four-stage Juno I rocket. The rocket came from the United States Army Redstone Missile, at Cape Canaveral. The satellite launched is called the Explorer 1 Satellite. -
The Mercury Seven
The Mercury Seven was a group of astronauts selected by NASA, selected on April 9, 1959. The people in it were Shepard, Grissom, Cooper, Schirra, Slayton, Glenn,and Carpenter. There were more than five-hundred applications to be part of the Mercury Seven. -
The First American in Space
Alan B. Shepard, member of the Mercury Seven, became the second man, and first American in space. -
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Mariner 2
The Mariner 2 is an American space probe that traveled to Venus. It was launched from Cape Canaveral on August 27, 1962, and it passed Venus on December 14, 1962. It was the first robotic space probe to conduct a successful planetary encounter. -
Ranger 7
The Ranger 7 probe was the first U.S. space probe to successfully transmit photos of the moon's surface, back to Earth. The Ranger 7 space probe transmitted over four-thousand, three-hundred pictures in its last 17 minutes. -
The First Men on the Moon
On July 20, 1969, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, American astronauts, become the first men on the moon. Neil Armstrong was the first man on the moon, and Buzz Aldrin was the second man on the moon. The spacecraft that landed them on the moon is called the Apollo 11. -
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Apollo-Soyuz Test Project
In Apollo-Soyuz, an American Apollo spacecraft docks with a Soviet Soyuz spacecraft, and the two crews met, shook hands, and exchanged gifts. Apollo-Soyuz marked the end of the Space Race in 1975.
