| First person to walk in space:
Alexi Leonov (Voskhod 2, Soviet Union) |
| Oct. 4, 1957 |
First artificial spacecraft to orbit
Earth: Sputnik (Soviet Union) |
| 1957 |
First Earth creature to orbit the
Earth: - Laika, a dog, (Sputnik 2, Soviet Union) |
| October 1, 1958 |
NASA was created |
| April 12, 1961 |
First manned space flight:
Yuri A. Gagarin from the Soviet Union orbited the earth in the
spaceship Vostok |
| May 5, 1961 |
First American to pilot a spacecraft:
Alan Shepard |
| Feb. 20, 1962 |
First US astronaut to orbit Earth:
John H. Glenn, Jr. |
| June, 1963 |
Valery Bykovsky completed a five
day mission |
| June, 1963 |
First woman in space: Valentina Tereshkova
(Voskod 6, Soviet Union) |
| March, 1965 |
First person to walk in space:
Alexi Leonov (Voskhod 2, Soviet Union) |
| June 3 1965 |
First US astronaut to conduct a spacewalk:
Edward H. White, Jr., Gemini 4 |
| Jan. 27, 1967 |
a fire in the cockpit of the Apollo
I spaceship killed Roger B. Chaffee, Virgil Grissom, and Edward
H. White, Jr. |
| Dec. 21, 1968 |
First manned voyage to moon:
US launched Apollo 8 which orbited the moon 10 times and returned
back to Earth |
| July 16, 1969 |
First moon landing blasted off on
carrying Neil A. Armstrong, Edwin E. Aldrin, Jr., and Michael
Collins |
| July 20, 1969 |
First human to set foot on the moon:
Neil Armstrong |
| July 30, 1971 |
First lunar rover used by astronauts
to explore the surface of the moon |
| April 12, 1981 |
First reusable manned spacecraft was
launched: Space Shuttle Columbia |
| June, 1983 |
First American woman to fly in space:
Sally K. Ride |
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