Space Race Timeline VUS.15c USSR? Year & Event USA? 1961 1926 Vostok 1 Yuri Gagarin Robert Goddard 1944-1945 Freedom 7 Alan Shepard V-2 Program 1962 & Operation Paperclip Friendship 7 1957 John Glenn Sputnik 1 JFK at Rice University Sputnik 2 1963 Laika 1958 Vostok 6 Valentina Explorer I Tereshkova 1968 Creation of NASA Apollo 8 1969 National Defense Apollo 11 Education Act (Armstrong, Aldrin & Collins) AM-13 1975 Gordo
Space Race Timeline VUS.15c USSR? Year & Event USA? 1926 Robert Goddard 1944-1945 V-2 Program & Operation Paperclip 1957 Sputnik 1 Sputnik 2 Laika 1958 Explorer I Creation of NASA National Defense Education Act AM-13 Gordo 1961 Vostok 1 Yuri Gagarin Freedom 7 Alan Shepard 1962 Friendship 7 John Glenn JFK at Rice University 1963 Vostok 6 Valentina Tereshkova 1968 Apollo 8 1969 Apollo 11 (Armstrong, Aldrin & Collins) 1975
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