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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.
Lists of space exploration milestones, 1957–1969. ... Timeline of the Space Race; Timeline of space exploration This page was last edited on 25 February 2024, at 09
4 October 1957: First artificial satellite. First human-made signals from space. ... Timeline of the Space Race/Moon Race Archived 2005-11-19 at the Wayback Machine;
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 ...
A replica of Sputnik 1 on display.. The race began in 1957 when both the US and the USSR made statements announced they planned to launch artificial satellites during the 18-month long International Geophysical Year of July 1957 to December 1958.
Maiden flight of the HJ-Nike-Nike, although it wouldn't go to space until 1962 [29] 26 October: R-2 Kapustin Yar MVS MVS Suborbital Missile test: 26 October: Successful [11] 26 October 19:47 Loki Rockoon SUI 92 USS Glacier, South Pacific Ocean, east of New Zealand [23] US Navy University of Iowa Suborbital Chemical release: 26 October ...
The Space Race was the first era of the Space Age. It was a race between the United States and the Soviet Union which began with the Soviet Union's October 4, 1957, launch of Earth's first artificial satellite Sputnik 1 during the International Geophysical Year. [9] Weighing 83.6 kg (184.3 lb) and orbiting the Earth once every 98 minutes.
2 Launch Statistics (1957-2024) 3 Deep-space rendezvous after 2029. 4 See also. ... Space Race; Timeline of spaceflight; Space probes; Lunar missions; Mars missions ...