The Space Race
Explore The Space Race on Ever-When, an interactive timeline of history from the Big Bang to the present day.
Key events on this timeline
- Apollo 11 moon landing (1969)
- Sputnik launch (1957)
- Yuri Gagarin: first human in space (1961)
- Apollo program announcement (1961)
- Apollo 13 crisis (1970)
- Kennedy's 'We choose to go to the Moon' speech (1962)
- First woman in space (Tereshkova) (1963)
- 'One small step': the Moonwalk broadcast (1969)
- Earthrise photograph (1968)
- NASA founded (1958)
- Apollo 8 orbits the Moon (1968)
- Apollo 17 leaves the Moon (1972)
- Gemini 6 and 7 rendezvous in orbit (1965)
- Apollo 1 fire (1967)
- The N1 rocket's fourth failure ends the Soviet Moon programme (1972)
- Soviet space dog Laika (1957)
- Apollo-Soyuz Test Project (1975)
- First spacewalk (1965)
- Zond 5 circles the Moon first (1968)
- John Glenn orbits the Earth (1962)
- Alan Shepard: first American in space (1961)
- Explorer 1: first American satellite (1958)
- Death of Vladimir Komarov (1967)
- Luna probes reach the Moon (1959)