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This is a timeline of achievements in Soviet and United States spaceflight, spanning the Cold War era of nationalistic competition known as the Space Race. This list is limited to first achievements by the USSR and USA which were important during the Space Race in terms of public perception and/or technical innovation.
Wernher von Braun's space station concept (1952) Although Germans, Americans and Soviets experimented with small liquid-fuel rockets before World War II, launching satellites and humans into space required the development of larger ballistic missiles such as Wernher von Braun's Aggregat-4 (A-4), which became known as the Vergeltungswaffe 2 (V-2) developed by Nazi Germany to bomb the Allies in ...
This is a timeline of space exploration which includes notable achievements, ... Timeline of the Space Race/Moon Race Archived 2005-11-19 at the Wayback Machine;
At the same time, the international space race between smaller space powers since the end of the 20th century can be considered the foundation and expansion of markets of commercial rocket launches and space tourism. [citation needed] The United States continued other space exploration, including major participation with the ISS with its own ...
Timeline of the Space Race; Timeline of space exploration This page was last edited on 25 February 2024, at 09:19 (UTC). Text is available ...
Due to its large size, the timeline has been split into smaller articles, one for each year since 1951. There is a separate list for all flights that occurred before 1951. The list for the year 2025 and for its subsequent years may contain planned launches, but the statistics will only include past launches.
Yuri Gagarin, first human in space. Valentina Tereshkova, first woman in space. Alexei Leonov, first EVA. Neil Armstrong, first human on the Moon. Yuri Gagarin Alan Shepard. 1970s. 38 Alfred Worden, first deep space EVA. Vladimír Remek Mirosław Hermaszewski Sigmund Jähn Georgi Ivanov Bertalan Farkas Phạm Tuân Arnaldo Tamayo Méndez. 1980s. 61
Albert II, a rhesus monkey, became the first mammal in space aboard a U.S. V-2 rocket on June 14, 1949, and died on reentry due to a parachute failure. The first dogs in space were launched 22 July 1951 aboard a Soviet R-1V. "Tsygin" and "Dezik" reached a height of 100 km (62 mi) and safely parachuted back to Earth.