The First Human in Space
The Russians won the space race 12 April 1961 when their Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin piloted his space Capsule Vostok 1 one around Earth’s orbit.
How many humans have landed on the moon?
- Starting with Apollo 11 Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin 20th July 1969
- The USA made 5 more moon landing missions up till 1972. 12 people in total have walked on the moon.
- Alan Bean, Pete Conrad Apollo 12
- Edgar Mitchel, Alan Shepard Apollo 14
- James Irwin, David Scott Apollo 15
- John Young, Charles Duke Apollo 16
- Eugene Cernan, Harrison Schmitt Apollo 17
The Space Race Time Line
1944
Germany under Nazi rule fires its first V2 rocket targeting England and France.
1955
The Soviet Union builds it’s top secret Cosmo Drome Baikonur
1957
The Soviet Union launched the first satellite into space cold Sputnik 1
1958
the USA launched its first satellite into space Explorer 1.
1959
in the USA NASA starts weightlessness training
1961
April Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man into space aboard Vostok 1.
May 1961
USA launchers Alan Shepard into sub-orbit for 15 minutes onboard a spacecraft freedom 7.
1961
USA President Kennedy declares the US will land a man on the Moon by the end of the decade.
1962
Neil Armstrong is selected by NASA as one of the astronauts for the Gemini missions.
February 1962
USA astronaut John Glenn aboard Friendship 7 was the first American to orbit the Earth.
1963
The Soviet Union put the first woman into space aboard Vostok 6. her name was cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova.
1965
The Soviet Union performed the first spacewalk outside spacecraft Voskhod 2 cosmonaut Alexi Leonov
January 1967
USA three astronauts I killed during testing of Apollo 1
April 1967
Soviet Union cosmonaut killed during re-entry to Earth due to Parachute fail of Soyuz 1
November 1967
The first Saturn V rocket launched into space
1968
Apollo 8 to the USA first spacecraft to travel around the moon and back.
1969
USA Apollo 11 Neil Armstrong first man to set foot on the moon.
1972
Apollo 17 to the USA is NASA’s last mission to the moon.
Rockets also flew to the moon
Dec 1968- 1972 Apollo missions, 8,10, 13 also sent another 12 humans to fly to moons orbit and to engage in lunar landings, which did not involve humans walking on the moon.
