Space Race

By Corneisha

  • Explorer 1 (US) - first american satellite, unmanned

  • Sputnik 3 (USSR) - first data about Earth taken from orbit

  • Vostok 1 (USSR) - first manned space flight, Yuri Gagarin. One orbit of Earth (first person in space)

  • Mercury Freedom 7 (US) - Alan Shepard, first American in space

  • Gemini 4 (US) - first American. Space walk (21 minutes)

  • Venera 3 (USSR) - impacted venus on March 1, 1966: no data

  • Luna 9 (USSR ) - first soft landing on moon, returned surface photos of the moon

  • Surveyor 1 (US) - first america soft landing on moon, returned 11,240 photos

  • Apollo 5 (US) - first flight of lunar module (unmanned)

  • Zond 5 (USSR) - first satellite to fly around the moon and return to earth

  • Apollo 13 (US) - third manned landing attempt aborted due to oxygen tank explosion in service module.

  • Soyuz 9 (USSR) - set new duration record for manned space flight.

  • Salyut 1 (USSR) - first orbiting space station lab.

  • Mars 2 (US) - first vehicle to land on Mars

  • Pioneer 10 (US) - first successful flyby of Jupiter

  • Venera 8 (USSR) - landed on Venus and lasted long enough to transmit surface date.