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This is a timeline of achievements in Soviet and United States spaceflight, spanning the Cold War era of nationalistic competition known as the Space Race. This list is limited to first achievements by the USSR and USA which were important during the Space Race in terms of public perception and/or technical innovation.
Lists of space exploration milestones, 1957–1969. ... Timeline of the Space Race; Timeline of space exploration This page was last edited on 25 February 2024, at 09
The Soviet Union took the lead in the post-war Space Race, launching the first satellite, [1] the first animal, [2]: 155 the first human [3] and the first woman [4] into orbit. The United States landed the first men on the Moon in 1969. Through the late 20th century, France, the United Kingdom, Japan, and China were also working on projects to ...
Lists of space exploration milestones, 1957–1969; Timeline of space exploration; G. ... Timeline of the Space Race; List of cumulative spacewalk records; List of ...
The Space Race was the first era of the Space Age. It was a race between the United States and the Soviet Union which began with the Soviet Union's October 4, 1957, launch of Earth's first artificial satellite Sputnik 1 during the International Geophysical Year. [9] Weighing 83.6 kg (184.3 lb) and orbiting the Earth once every 98 minutes.
Wernher von Braun's space station concept (1952) Although Germans, Americans and Soviets experimented with small liquid-fuel rockets before World War II, launching satellites and humans into space required the development of larger ballistic missiles such as Wernher von Braun's Aggregat-4 (A-4), which became known as the Vergeltungswaffe 2 (V-2) developed by Nazi Germany to bomb the Allies in ...
The composite image taken from multiple cameras on-board an Aerobee sounding rocket produces the first full view of the earth from space. Unlike the earlier still-frames and motion picture images taken by the V-2 rocket which captured only segments, the Aerobee provided the first panoramic (complete) view of the planet and also provided the ...
15 January 1969 Soyuz 5: 17 January 1969 Soyuz 4: First crew transfer between space vehicles. First docking of two crewed spacecraft. Boris Volynov (1) 18 January 1969 Soyuz 5: 33 James McDivitt (2) David Scott (2) Rusty Schweickart: 3 March 1969 Apollo 9: 13 March 1969 Apollo 9: Tested Lunar Module in low Earth orbit. 34 Thomas P. Stafford (3 ...