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The Space Race The Cold War in Orbit 1957-75 Origins of the Space Race Robert Goddard, US, 1926 First successful liquid fuel rocket launch. Vergeltungswaffe (Vengeance Weapon) V-2 Sputnik - Early Soviet Superiority Sputnik 1, October 4, 1957 Sputnik 2, November 3, 1957 Laika Sputnik Mania Explorer 1, January 31, 1958 Humans in Space Yuri Gagarin, April 12, 1961 Alan Shepard, May 5, 1961 Humans in Space John Glenn, First Human to Orbit Earth, February 20, 1962 Valentina Tereshkova, First Woman in Space, June 16, 1963 To The Moon Luna 2, Reaches moon on September 14, 1959 September 12, 1961: President Kennedy challenges nation to put a man on the Moon by the end of the decade Apollo Program Apollo 11 Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins and Buzz Aldrin First Moon Landing, July 20, 1969 Venus Other Planets Mars Mariner 4 July 1965 Mariner 2 December 14, 1962 Mars 2 & 3 1971-72 Venera 3 March 1, 1966 Détente in Space July 15, 1975: Apollo 18 and Soyuz 19 dock in Earth’s orbit.
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