2. First steps
October 4, 1957 It was the first
Sputnik1 lunched. satellite in space
Sputnik2 lunched It orbited earth at
with a dog. 18,000 m.p.h.
The dog’s name was
Laika, and she
stayed healthy.
The scientist who
lunched her up
there left her and
she died.
3. Space race
The space race is Yuri Gagarin was the
first human in soviet
about power over union and first in
who can get to space.
space first. Less than a month
later Alan Shepard
The space race is was the first
between soviet American in space.
union the united The space race was
states. part of the cold war.
Valentina Tereshkova
was the first woman
in space.
4. To the moon
The Apollo program
Apollo 7
(witch was part of
the united states) Apollo 8
wanted to send a Apollo 9
man to the moon. Apollo 10
There were many Apollo 11
space ships sent. Apollo 11 had the
Apollo 13 was first man on the
unlucky. It was moon.
disturbed by an
explosion.
5. The space shuttle
The space shuttle Here is a list of all the
was the first space shuttles built.
craft that could be Columbia
used more than Challenger
once.
Discovery
Atlantis
