History of Space Exploration

By madison_76

  • Sputnik 1

    Sputnik 1
    The first artificial earth satellite to be launched into space.

  • Sputnik 2

    Sputnik 2
    The first to carry an animal into orbit, a Soviet space dog named Laika. The dog died from panicking and overheating.

  • Sputnik 5

    Sputnik 5
    Carrying the dogs Strelka and Belka Sputnik 5 was launched. They became the first living beings to survive going into space.

  • Vostok 1

    Vostok 1
    Yuri Gagarin became the first person to fly into space and orbit the earth.

  • Freedom 7

    Freedom 7
    Alan Shepard Jr. became the first American in space.

  • Start of the space race

    Start of the space race
    President John F. Kennedy challenges the country to put a man on the moon by the end of the decade.

  • Vostok 6

    Vostok 6
    She became the first woman to travel to space.

  • Voskhod 2

    Voskhod 2
    Russian Cosmonaut Alexei Arkhipovich Leonov became the first human ever to walk in space. Leonov exited the spacecraft for 12 minutes and 9 seconds.

  • Mariner 4

    Mariner 4
    Transmitted the first ever pictures of mars.

  • Luna 9

    Luna 9
    The first aircraft to land on the moon.

  • Space Race Ends

    Space Race Ends
    On the mission Apollo 11 we put Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the moon for the first moon walk.

  • Apollo 8

    Apollo 8
    First crew of Frank Borman, Jim Lovell, and Bill Anders orbited the moon.

  • Luna 17

    Luna 17
    The first rover on the moon named Lunokhod 1.

  • Challenger

    Challenger
    Became the second space shuttle to be launched.

  • Curiosity

    Curiosity
    The biggest, best equipped robot ever sent to explore another planet. (Mars)