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2nd semester space race review

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Event
Date (Country)
USSR launches Sputnik 1   October 4th 1957 (Russian)  
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USSR launches Sputnik 2 carried a small dog named Laika into orbit   November 3rd 1957 (Russian)  
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Explorer 1, first américain satellite to reach orbit, is launched. Carried scientific equipment that lead to discovery of the Van Allen radiation belt   January 31st 1958 (USA)  
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Explorer 2 is launched but fails to reach orbit   March 5th 1958 (USA)  
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The Vanguard 1 satellite is launched continues function for 3 years   March 17th 1958 (USA)  
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Sputnik 3 is launched   May 15th 1958 (Russian)  
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NASA is formed it replaces the NACA   October 1st 1958 (USA)  
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Pioneer 1 launched   October 11th 1958 (USA)  
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Luna 1 launched by the USSR , first man made object to orbit the sun   January 2nd 1959 (Russia)  
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Pioneer 4 is launched on a Earth-moon trajectory   March 3rd 1959 (USA)  
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The "Mercury Seven" astronauts are selected by NASA   April 2nd 1959 (USA)  
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Luna 2 is launched, impacts the moon first man made object to do so   September 12th 1959 (Russia)  
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Luna 3 orbits moon and photographs 70% of its surface   October 4th 1959 (Russia)  
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Trios 1 1st successful weather satellite launched   April 1st 1960 (USA)  
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launches Discoverer XIV first camera equipped spy satellite   August 18th 1960 (USA)  
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John F. Kennedy is elected   November 8th 1960 (USA)  
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Yuri Gagarin orbits the Earth once and becomes first man in space   April 12th 1961 (Russia)  
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Alan B. Shepard becomes the first ___ man in space   May 5th 1961 (USA)  
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John F. Kennedy addresses congress and challenges the nation to go to the moon before the end of the decade   May 25th 1961 (USA)  
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Gus Grissom is launched on a sub orbital flight   July 21st 1961 (USA)  
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Gherman Titov spends a day in space abroad Vostok 2   August 6th 1961 (Russia)  
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NASA announces the Gemini program   December 7th 1961 (USA)  
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John Glenn orbits the earth three times   February 20th 1962 (USA)  
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Scott Carpenter repeats John Glenn's flight aboard "Aurora 7"   May 24th 1962 (USA)  
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Kennedy gives a speech at Rice University reaffirming the importance of the Moon Program   September 12th 1962 (USA)  
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NASA selects its second group of astronauts   September 17th 1962 (USA)  
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Walter Schirra orbits the earth 6 times   October 3rd 1962 (USA)  
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Mariner 2 flies past Venus and enters a solar orbit   December 14th 1962 (USA)  
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L. Gordon Cooper spends 34 hours in space   May 15th 1963 (USA)  
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Cosmonaut Valentia Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space   June 16th 1963 (Russia)  
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A third group of NASA astronauts is selected   October 17th 1963 (USA)  
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Kennedy is assassinated   November 22nd 1963 (USA)  
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Ranger 7 transmits the first close range images of the moon   July 31st 1964 (USA)  
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Astronaut Theodore Freeman dies in a plane crash   October 31st 1964 (USA)  
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Alexi Leonov spends 12 minutes outside of his Voskhod spacecraft performing the first space walk   March 18th 1965 (Russia)  
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Gus Grissom and John Young fly the first manned Gemini spacecraft   March 23rd 1965 (USA)  
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Ed white preforms ____ first space walk   June 3rd 1965 (USA)  
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Mariner 4 returns close ranger images of Mars   July 14th 1965 (USA)  
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Venus 3 is launched becomes first man made object to impact Venus   November 16th 1965 (Russia)  
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Frank Borman and James Lovell begin a 2 week stay in earth orbit aboard Gemini 7   December 4th 1965 (USA)  
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Walter Schirra and Thomas Stafford in their Gemini spacecraft make the first space rendezvous with Gemini 7   December 15th 1965 (USA)  
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Luna 9 becomes the first spacecraft to soft-land on the Moon   February 3rd 1966 (Russia)  
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Astronauts Charles Bassett and Elliot See die when their plane crashes in bad weather   February 28th 1966 (USA)  
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Luna 10 become first satellite to orbit the moon   April 3rd 1966 (Russia)  
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Surveyor 1 soft-lands on the moon   June 2nd 1966 (USA)  
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Lunar Orbiter 1 enters orbit around the moon and takes first picture of earth from that distance   August 14th 1966 (USA)  
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Gemini 12 last flight of the Gemini program launches with James Lovell and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin aboard   November 11th 1966 (USA)  
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Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee are killed when fire ignites in their Apollo 1 capsule while performing a test on the launch pad   January 27th 1967 (USA)  
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Cosmonaut Vladimir Komarvo is killed when the parachutes of his Soyuz 1 capsule fail to open properly following re-entry   April 24th 1967 (Russia)  
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Astronaut Edward Givens is killed in an automobile accident   June 6th 1967 (USA)  
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Astronaut Clifton Williams is killed in a plane crash   October 5th 1967 (USA)  
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Venera 4 transmits data about the atmosphere of Venus   October 18th 1967 (Russia)  
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Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin fist man in space dies in a plane crash   March 27th 1968 (Russia)  
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Zond 5 is launched it carried a biological payload (including 2 turtles) around the moon and returned to earth 6 days later   September 15th 1968 (Russia)  
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the crew of Apollo 7 begin a 10 day mission to study the new spacecraft   October 11th 1968 (USA)  
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Frank Borman, James Lovell, and William Anders begin the first manned journey from the earth to the moon   December 21st 1968 (USA)  
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Soyuz 4 & 5 perform the first spacecraft docking   January 16th 1969 (Russia)  
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Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin become the first men to walk on the moon while cremate Michael Collins orbits around the moon alone   July 20th 1969 (USA)  
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Pete Conrad and Alan Bean perform the first precision lunar landing touching down just 600 feet from the Surveyor 3 probe that arrived two years earlier   November 19th 1969 (USA)  
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