Here's a list of some of my favorite sites to use when teaching about the Space Race or Exploring Space. Click on the links to learn about each event.
1957
Soviets launch Sputnik I.January 1958
Explorer, the 1st U.S. satellite is launched.October 1958
NASA is established.January 1961
NASA engineers test space capsule using chimpanzees.April 1961
Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first person to orbit Earth.May 5, 1961
Alan Shepard, Jr. becomes the first American to fly into space.May 25, 1961
President Kennedy commits to the goal of landing a man on the moon.1962
John Glenn becomes the first American to orbit Earth.1963
Soviet Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first women to fly in space.1967
Fire in Apollo 1 capsule kills astronauts Roger Chaffee, Gus Grisson, and Edward White.1968
Apollo 8 orbits the moon.1969
Apollo 11 lands Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin on the moon.1970
A successful failure: Apollo 131975
Soviet and American space crafts successfully dock in space during the Apollo-Soyuz mission.1981
First U.S. mission using the space shuttle.1983
Sally Ride becomes the first American woman to fly in space.1986
Challenger explodes.1990
U.S. launches the Hubble Space Telescope.2003
Columbia disintegrates upon re-entry.Today
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