Space Race/Timelines

Timeline (1957-1975)

Date	Significance	Country	Mission Name
August 21, 1957	Intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)	USSR	R-7 Semyorka SS-6 Sapwood
October 4, 1957	Artificial satellite (Earth's)	USSR	Sputnik 1
November 3, 1957	Animal in orbit (dog)	USSR	Sputnik 2
January 31, 1958	Detection of Van Allen belts	USA-ABMA	Explorer I
December 18, 1958	Communications satellite	USA-ABMA	Project SCORE
January 4, 1959	Artificial satellite (Sun's)	USSR	Luna 1
February 17, 1959	Weather satellite	USA-NASA (NRL)1	Vanguard 2
June 1959	Reconnaissance satellite	United States Air Force	Discoverer 4
August 7, 1959	Photo of Earth from space	USA-NASA	Explorer 6
September 14, 1959	Probe to Moon	USSR	Luna 2
October 7, 1959	Photo of the far side of the Moon	USSR	Luna 3
April 12, 1961	Human in orbit	USSR	Vostok 1
July 10, 1962	First active communications satellite	USA-AT&T	Telstar
September 29, 1962	Artificial satellite by a non-superpower	Canada	Alouette 1
June 16, 1963	Woman in orbit	USSR	Vostok 6
March 18, 1965	Extra-vehicular activity	USSR	Voskhod 2
December 15, 1965	Orbital rendezvous²	USA-NASA	Gemini 6A/Gemini 7
March 1, 1966	Probe lands on another planet - Venus	USSR	Venera 3
March 16, 1966	In-orbit rendezvous and docking	USA-NASA	Gemini VIII
December 24, 1968	Manned Lunar orbit	USA-NASA	Apollo 8
July 20, 1969	Human on the Moon	USA-NASA	Apollo 11
April 23, 1971	Space station	USSR	Salyut 1
November 14, 1971	Satellite orbits another planet - Mars	USA-NASA	Mariner 9
November 9, 1972	Geostationary communications satellite	Canada-BCE	Anik A1
July 15, 1975	First USA-USSR joint mission	USSR USA-NASA	Apollo-Soyuz Test Project