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The document outlines 10 key events in the space race between the Soviet Union and United States from 1957 to 2011, including the launch of Sputnik 1, Yuri Gagarin becoming the first human in space, the first American and woman in space, the moon landing, the Space Shuttle program, and the International Space Station.

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History Infographic

The document outlines 10 key events in the space race between the Soviet Union and United States from 1957 to 2011, including the launch of Sputnik 1, Yuri Gagarin becoming the first human in space, the first American and woman in space, the moon landing, the Space Shuttle program, and the International Space Station.

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TIMELINE OF THE

SPACE RACE
Launch of Sputnik 1 1
10/1957
The Soviet Union
launches the world’s
first artificial
satellite, marking the
beginning of the
2 Yuri Gagarin

Space Race. 4/1961


The Soviet Union’s Yuri
Gagarin becomes the
first human in space
Alan Shepard 3 and orbited the whole
planet once in under 2
5/1961 hours aboard ‘Vostok 1’.

The United State’s


Alan Shepard
becomes the first
American in space
aboard ‘Freedom 7’,
4 John Glenn

making a suborbital 2/1962


flight lasting 15
The United State’s
minutes.
John Glenn becomes
the first American to
Valentina Tereshkova 5 orbit the Earth aboard
‘Friendship 7’,
6/1963 completing 3 orbits.
The Soviet Union’s
Valentina Tereshkova
becomes the first
woman in space
aboard ‘Vostok 6’,
6 Moon Landing

orbiting the Earth 48 7/1969


times over almost 3 American astronauts
days. Neil Armstrong and
Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin
Space Shuttle 7 become the first
humans to set foot on
4/1981 the moon, while
Michael Collins orbits
The United States
above in the command
launches the Space
module ‘Columbia’.
Shuttle Columbia,
marking the
beginning of the
8 Mir Space Station

Space Shuttle 11/1988


program and a new The Soviet Union
era of reusable launches the ‘Mir’
spacecraft. space station, which
International
Space Station
9 becomes the first
modular space station
and orbits for 15 years.
11/1988
The first module of
the ISS is launched Final Space Shuttle
into orbit, beginning
the assembly of the
10 Mission

most complex space


structure ever built,
7/2011
involving 15 countries The Space Shuttle
and 5 space agencies, Atlantis lands at
and is the most Kennedy Space Center,
expensive human marking the end of
object ever made ($15 NASA’s Space Shuttle
Billion) Program over 30 years.

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