The Cold
War Facts
for kids: The Space Race
The Space Race was of critical
importance to both the United States and the USSR. Both of these
powerful nations wanted to
prove they had the most advanced technology, the best scientists and the best economic
resources to support their
projects. Americans viewed space as the next frontier, a logical
extension of the American tradition of expansion and exploration.
The American sense of security was
shattered when the Soviets placed the first successful satellite,
Sputnik,
into orbit and the Space Race began.
Space Race Timeline for Kids
The main events of the Cold War can be seen in the
short, History Timeline for kids. Click the links for comprehensive
articles on Sputnik and Nasa.
Space Race Timeline
for kids
Space Race
Timeline: 1949 -
Albert II, was the
first monkey to go into space in an American V2 rocket
on 14th June, 1949.
Space Race
Timeline: 1957 -
October 4, 1957: USSR
launch Sputnik, the world's first artificial satellite
that orbited Earth every 96 minutes
Space Race
Timeline: 1957 -
November 4, 1957:
USSR launch Sputnik 2 into space with Laika the dog
aboard
Space Race
Timeline: 1957 -
December 6, 1957: USA
Vanguard Failure. America's first satellite fails in a
launch pad explosion
Space Race
Timeline: 1958 -
January 31, 1958: USA
Explorer Satellite success - America's first satellite launched
into space
Space Race
Timeline: 1958 -
October 1, 1958:
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
was established
Space Race
Timeline: 1958 -
October 11, 1958:
The first spacecraft
launched by NASA was Pioneer 1 at Cape
Canaveral, Florida.
Space Race
Timeline: 1959 -
USA initiates a
new space program, Project Mercury (1959-1963) to orbit
a manned spacecraft around Earth. The Mercury Seven were
John Glenn Jr., Gus Grissom, Scott Carpenter, Leroy
Gordon Cooper, Walter Schirra, Alan Shepard and Donald "Deke"
Slayton.
Space Race
Timeline: 1959 -
October 4, 1959: USSR
sent the first spacecraft, Luna 3, around the moon
Space Race
Timeline: 1959 -
USA abandoned Project
A119 aimed at detonating a nuclear weapon on the Moon
that would be visible to the naked eye
Space Race
Timeline: 1960 -
August 18, 1960: USA
Corona Spy Satellite - successful recovery of
photographs from space
Space Race
Timeline: 1961 -
April 1, 1961: USSR
sent First Man into Space in Vostok I spacecraft (Soviet
Cosmonaut, Yuri Gagarin)
Space Race
Timeline: 1961 -
May 5, 1961: Alan
Shepherd became the first American, to travel into space
on Freedom 7
Space Race
Timeline: 1961 -
July 21,
1961: Gus Grissom was the second American to travel into
space the spacecraft Liberty Bell 7.
Space Race
Timeline: 1961 -
February
20, 1962: John Glenn flew in Friendship 7
Space Race
Timeline: 1961 -
May 24,
1962: Scott Carpenter flew in Aurora 7.
Space Race
Timeline: 1961 -
May 25, 1961: US
President Kennedy announces goal to reach the Moon
Continued...
Space Race Timeline
for kids
Cold War Timeline for kids:
Dates and Events
Our interesting
History Time line continues with more facts for kids that are
detailed below. The history is told in a
factual timeline sequence consisting of a series of short facts
providing a simple method of relating the
history and the important events
and people who feature in the History Timeline. The
competitive nature of the Space Race can be seen in the following
History Timeline for kids.
Space Race Timeline
for kids
Space Race
Timeline: 1962 -
October
3, 1962: Walter Schirra flew in the Sigma 7.
Space Race
Timeline: 1962 -
February 20, 1962:
USA launches Friendship 7 and John Glenn becomes the first US
astronaut to circle the Earth
Space Race
Timeline: 1962 -
April 1962: USSR
launches Zenit Spy Satellite, takes photographs above
the USA
Space Race
Timeline: 1962 -
July
10 1962: The first of the Telstar privately built
communications satellites was launched transmitting the
first telephone and television signals carried via
satellite
Space Race
Timeline: 1963 -
May
15-16, 1963: Gordon Cooper piloted the longest and final
Mercury spaceflight on the Faith 7
Space Race
Timeline: 1963 -
16 June 1963: USSR
launch Vostok 6 sending Valentina Tereshkova as the
first woman in space
Space Race
Timeline: 1965 -
March 1965: USSR
First Spacewalk by Aleksei Leonov.
Space Race
Timeline: 1965 -
June 3-7, 1965: Astronaut
Edward H. White II piloted the second operational Gemini
mission and performed the first spacewalk
by an American.
Space Race
Timeline: 1966 -
The US
robot spaceship, Surveyor 1, made a soft landing on the
Moon
Space Race
Timeline: 1966 -
March 16, 1966:
The Gemini project saw Neil A. Armstrong and David
Scott perform the first orbital docking, successfully
coupling two spacecraft.
Space Race
Timeline: 1967 -
January 27,
1967: Gus Grissom, Ed
White, and Roger Chaffee were killed taking part in a test run for
the launch of the first NASA Apollo mission. As a result of this
disaster the Apollo program was delayed until the
spacecraft could be redesigned.
Space Race
Timeline: 1967 -
The Outer Space
Treaty was signed in January 1967 forming the basis of
international space law and banned placing weapons of
mass destruction in outer space.
Space Race
Timeline: 1968 -
December
21, 1968: USA launched the Apollo 8 Manned Moon Orbit of
the Gemini program
Space Race
Timeline: 1969 -
February 1969: USSR
N-1 Failed Moon Rocket Test
Space Race
Timeline: 1969 -
July 16, 1969: USA
places First Man on the Moon. Neil Armstrong and Buzz
Aldrin in Apollo 11 lunar module land on the Moon with
Michael Collins as the third crew member.
Space Race
Timeline: 1969 -
14-24 November 1969: Charles
Conrad, Richard Gordon, and Alan Bean in Apollo 12
were the second mission to land on the Moon
Space Race
Timeline: 1970 -
April 11-17,1970:
Apollo 13 Astronauts James A. Lovell, John L. "Jack"
Swigert and Fred W. Haise survived one of the near
disasters of the Apollo program
Space Race
Timeline: 1970 -
April 23, 1971: USSR
establishes the first Space Station, Salyut 1
Space Race
Timeline: 1971 -
January 31- February 9,
1971: Apollo 14 with astronauts Alan
Shepard, Edgar Mitchell and Stuart Roosa
land on the moon
Space Race
Timeline: 1971 -
26 July 26 - August 7
1971: Apollo 15 with astronauts David R.
Scott, Alfred M. Worden and James B. Irwin
land on the moon
Space Race
Timeline: 1971 -
November 14, 1971:
USA sends the first satellite to orbit another planet
Space Race
Timeline: 1972 -
April 16-27, 1972: Apollo
16 with astronauts John Young, Thomas Mattingly II, and
Charles Duke make the fifth US landing on the moon
Space Race
Timeline: 1972 -
December 7-19 1972:
Apollo 17 with astronauts Eugene
Cernan, Ronald Evans, and Harrison Schmitt
make a moon landing in the final mission of NASA's
Apollo program.
Space Race
Timeline: 1973 -
Russian space probe
Mars 2 explored Mars, the fourth planet of the solar
system.
Space Race
Timeline: 1973 -
May 14, 1973: The
US launched their own space station called Skylab, a
small orbital space platform that was launched by the
modified Saturn V rocket.
Space Race
Timeline: 1975 -
Relationships
between the USSR and the USA thawed due to the policy of
Detente and the 1975 Apollo–Soyuz Test Project (ASTP)
initiated the first joint U.S.–Soviet space flight in
which the two sides cooperated in scientific research of
space.
Space Race
Timeline: 1975 -
July
15-24, 1975: The Apollo-Soyuz Test Project entailed the
docking of an American Apollo Command Module (CSM) with a Soviet Soyuz
spacecraft. The Apollo crew consisted of Tom Stafford, Vance Brand, and Deke
Slayton. The Soyuz crew were Alexey
Leonov and Valeri Kubasov.
Space Race
Timeline: 1975 -
The USA /
USSR First joint multi-national manned missions in the
Apollo-Soyuz Test Project ended
the Cold War Space Race.
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