Space Race Timeline
Space race heats up.
Space race timeline. The first of the telstar privately built communications satellites was launched transmitting the first telephone and television signals carried via satellite. T he space race played a major part in the cold war as the americans and soviets strived to prove their technological and intellectual superiority to the world by becoming the first nation to put a. With no official measure of success the winner of the space race is a point of controversy.
1963 may 15 16 1963. January 31 1961 mercury redstone 2 february 12 1961 april 12 1961 may 19 1961 august 6 1961 first crewed. Gordon cooper piloted the longest and final mercury spaceflight on the faith 7.
As the climax of space history and exploration the lunar landing led to a triumph for the us. Vanguard 2 nasa nrl 1 april 1 1960 august 11 1960 august 12 1960 august 18 1960 august 19 1960 1961 1969. April 14 1970 first.
1962 july 10 1962. Space program 1960 1969 the race for space really began when the ussr launched sputnik i the first artificial satellite into a low elliptical orbit around the earth. Timeline of the space race 1957 1960.
Men and chimps orbit earth in 1959 the soviet space program took another step forward with the launch of luna 2 the first space probe to hit the moon.