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1957 August 21 USSR First intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM); fully operational September 1957 R-7 Semyorka: 1957 October 4 USSR First artificial satellite First man-made signals from orbit: Sputnik 1: 1957 November 3 USSR First mammal (the dog Laika) in orbit around Earth. Sputnik 2: 1958 March 17 USA First solar-powered satellite ...
Maiden flight of the HJ-Nike-Nike, although it wouldn't go to space until 1962 [29] 26 October: R-2 Kapustin Yar MVS MVS Suborbital Missile test: 26 October: Successful [11] 26 October 19:47 Loki Rockoon SUI 92 USS Glacier, South Pacific Ocean, east of New Zealand [23] US Navy University of Iowa Suborbital Chemical release: 26 October ...
The Space Race (Russian: ... resulting in the July 1975 rendezvous in Earth orbit of a US astronaut crew with a Soviet ... List of space exploration milestones, 1957 ...
The race began in 1957 when both the US and the USSR made statements announced they planned to launch artificial satellites during the 18-month long International Geophysical Year of July 1957 to December 1958.
First space walk/extra-vehicular activity (Alexei Leonov). USSR Voskhod 2: March 1965: First crewed spacecraft to change orbit. USA (NASA) Gemini 3: 14 July 1965: First flyby of Mars (returned pictures). USA (NASA) Mariner 4 [18] 14 July 1965: First photographs of another planet from deep space . USA (NASA) Mariner 4 [18] 26 November 1965
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
Viking 1 was launched on 20 August 1975 and Viking 2 was launched 9 September 1975. This orbiter/lander mission was to photograph the surface of Mars in 1976. The Apollo-Soyuz Test Project was a collaboration between the United States and the Soviet Union that saw an end to the space race. The mission was launched on 15 July 1975, with the ...
The notion of "firsts" in spaceflight follows a long tradition of firsts in aviation, but is also closely tied to the Space Race. During the 1950s and 1960s, the Soviet Union and the United States competed to be the first countries to accomplish various feats. In 1957, the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, the