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Sputnik I
solveit union lunched sputnik. -
Sputnik II
Sputnik II launches, with ill-fated Laika the dog on board. -
Explorer
United States launches Explorer I from Cape Canaveral in Florida. -
Begining of NASA!!
NASA is formed after Congress passes the National Aeronautics and Space Act. -
Yuri Grarin enters space
Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human to enter space and return safely. -
Freedom 7
With the launch of Freedom 7, Alan Shepard becomes the first American man in space. The suborbital flight, which was part of the Mercury Project, lasted 15 minutes, 28 seconds. -
U.S to the moon
U.S. President John F. Kennedy announces the goal of sending astronauts to the moon before the end of the decade. -
Mercury Project
Launch of Friendship 7 (also part of the Mercury Project) makes astronaut John Glenn the first American to go into orbit. Total flight time was just shy of five hours. -
Lunch of Gemini 5
Carrying astronuts Gordan Cooper and charles Conrad on an eight-day mission to test rendezvous guidance and navigation systems. -
First test flight!
test flight was to saturn V rocket, which would carry dozens of spacecarft into space in the year to come.
