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Adventure into Space

By HISstudent11
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  • SPUTNIK

    SPUTNIK
    The Soviet Union made the launch of sputnik 1. The size o a beach bal and wheighs 184 pounds and takes 98 minutes to orbit the earth.

  • LAIKA

    LAIKA
    November 3 1957 she went to space a few hours later she died from no oxygen and heat from coming back to earths atmosphere.

  • AMERICA

    AMERICA
    Launched les than two months after Vanguard 1A the first American attempt to compete with sputnik,blows up on the launchpad explorer 1 achieves an orbit extending to an astonishing 1,560 miles.

  • First Monkey in Space

    First Monkey in Space
    Gordo was the first monkey in space when she was coming down from space she landed in the ocean and drowned.

  • Moon landing

    Moon landing
    Moon landing

  • FIRST MAN IN SPACE

    FIRST MAN IN SPACE
    Determined to keep up with the U.S. launched astronaut Alan Shepard on a 15 minute suborbital flight. In a first not realized until years later,Shepard rides the capsule all the way back down a feat made easier by the U.S. decistion to conduct.