This 4 minute YouTube video provides an overview of the key events in the history of the United States space program from 1957 to 1972. It discusses the launch of Sputnik 1 by the Soviet Union in 1957, the creation of NASA in 1958, the first American in space Alan Shepard in 1961, John Glenn becoming the first American to orbit Earth in 1962, the Apollo program achieving the goal of landing astronauts on the Moon in 1969, and the final Apollo mission returning astronauts safely to Earth in 1972.