Space Race-Ak5

By knoxa35

  • Soviet Union launches Sputnik 2 laika the dog

    Soviet Union launches Sputnik 2 laika the dog
    A dog named Laika was the first animal to orbit the earth the United States and USSR had been putting animals atop rockets since 1947

  • First American satellite to reach the orbit

    First American satellite to reach the orbit
    First satellite with a aboard telemetry system is launches by the United States in to orbit aboard a Juno rocket and return data from space

  • Soviet Union Luna 2 crashed on the moon

    Our moon mussed up by scards of incoming celestial object that produced lots of craters but our moon has also been on the receiving end impacts over the last few decades

  • Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man in space

    Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man in space
    Yuri Gagarin was the first human to be in space his 108 min flight gave him a permanent palce in the historybook as the first male human in space.

  • Neil Armstrong became the first American human to det foot on moon

    Neil Armstrong became the first American human to det foot on moon
    While the world marveled the United States Saturn 5 "moon rocket" which sent the astronaut Apollo 11 craft in to space the Soviet had secrety been working on their own verison