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==Timeline (1957-1975)== | |||
{| class="wikitable" | |||
|- | |||
! Date | |||
! Significance | |||
! Country | |||
! Mission Name | |||
|- | |||
||[[August 21]] [[1957]] | |||
||[[Intercontinental ballistic missile]] (ICBM) | |||
||[[Image:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg|20px|]] [[Soviet space program|USSR]] | |||
||[[R-7 Semyorka]] ''SS-6 Sapwood'' | |||
|- | |||
||[[October 4]] [[1957]] | |||
||Artificial satellite (Earth's) | |||
||[[Image:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg|20px|]] USSR | |||
||[[Sputnik 1]] | |||
|- | |||
||[[November 3]] [[1957]] | |||
||Animal in orbit (dog) | |||
||[[Image:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg|20px|]] USSR | |||
||[[Sputnik 2]] | |||
|- | |||
||[[January 31]] [[1958]] | |||
||Detection of [[Van Allen radiation belt|Van Allen belts]] | |||
||[[Image:Flag of the United States.svg|20px|]] [[Army Ballistic Missile Agency|USA-ABMA]] | |||
||[[Explorer I]] | |||
|- | |||
||[[December 18]] [[1958]] | |||
||[[Communications satellite]] | |||
||[[Image:Flag of the United States.svg|20px|]] USA-ABMA | |||
||[[Project SCORE]] | |||
|- | |||
||[[January 4]] [[1959]] | |||
||Artificial satellite (Sun's) | |||
||[[Image:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg|20px|]] USSR | |||
||[[Luna 1]] | |||
|- | |||
||[[February 17]] [[1959]] | |||
||[[Weather satellite]] | |||
||[[Image:Flag of the United States.svg|20px|]] [[NASA|USA-NASA]] ([[U.S. Naval Research Laboratory|NRL]])<sup>1</sup> | |||
||[[Vanguard 2]] | |||
|- | |||
||June 1959 | |||
||[[Reconnaissance satellite]] | |||
||[[Image:Flag of the United States.svg|20px|]] [[U.S. Air Force|USA-Air Force]] | |||
||[[Corona (satellite)|Discoverer 4]] | |||
|- | |||
||[[August 7]] [[1959]] | |||
||Photo of Earth from space | |||
||[[Image:Flag of the United States.svg|20px|]] USA-NASA | |||
||[[Explorer 6]] | |||
|- | |||
||[[September 14]] [[1959]] | |||
||Probe to Moon | |||
||[[Image:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg|20px|]] USSR | |||
||[[Luna 2]] | |||
|- | |||
||[[October 7]] [[1959]] | |||
||Photo of the far side of the Moon | |||
||[[Image:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg|20px|]] USSR | |||
||[[Luna 3]] | |||
|- | |||
||[[April 12]] [[1961]] | |||
||[[Yuri Gagarin|Human in orbit]] | |||
||[[Image:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg|20px|]] USSR | |||
||[[Vostok 1]] | |||
|- | |||
||[[July 10]] [[1962]] | |||
||First active [[communications satellite]] | |||
||[[Image:Flag of the United States.svg|20px|]] USA-AT&T | |||
||[[Telstar]] | |||
|- | |||
||[[September 29]] [[1962]] | |||
||Artificial satellite by a non-superpower | |||
||[[Image:Flag of Canada.svg|20px|]] Canada | |||
||[[Alouette 1]] | |||
|- | |||
||[[June 16]] [[1963]] | |||
||[[Valentina Tereshkova|Woman in orbit]] | |||
||[[Image:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg|20px|]] USSR | |||
||[[Vostok 6]] | |||
|- | |||
||[[March 18]] [[1965]] | |||
||[[Extra-vehicular activity]] | |||
||[[Image:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg|20px|]] USSR | |||
||[[Voskhod 2]] | |||
|- | |||
||[[December 15]] [[1965]] | |||
||Orbital [[Space rendezvous|rendezvous]]² | |||
||[[Image:Flag of the United States.svg|20px|]] USA-NASA | |||
||[[Gemini 6A]]/[[Gemini 7]] | |||
|- | |||
||[[March 1]] [[1966]] | |||
||Probe lands on another planet - [[Venus]] | |||
||[[Image:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg|20px|]] USSR | |||
||[[Venera 3]] | |||
|- | |||
||[[March 16]] [[1966]] | |||
||[[In-orbit rendezvous]] and docking | |||
||[[Image:Flag of the United States.svg|20px|]] USA-NASA | |||
||[[Gemini VIII]] | |||
|- | |||
||[[December 24]] [[1968]] | |||
||Manned Lunar orbit | |||
||[[Image:Flag of the United States.svg|20px|]] USA-NASA | |||
||[[Apollo 8]] | |||
|- | |||
||[[July 20]] [[1969]] | |||
||[[Neil Armstrong|Human on the Moon]] | |||
||[[Image:Flag of the United States.svg|20px|]] USA-NASA | |||
||[[Apollo 11]] | |||
|- | |||
||[[April 23]] [[1971]] | |||
||[[Space station]] | |||
||[[Image:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg|20px|]] USSR | |||
||[[Salyut 1]] | |||
|- | |||
||[[November 14]] [[1971]] | |||
||Satellite orbits another planet - [[Mars]] | |||
||[[Image:Flag of the United States.svg|20px|]] USA-NASA | |||
||[[Mariner 9]] | |||
|- | |||
||[[November 9]] [[1972]] | |||
||[[Geostationary]] communications satellite | |||
||[[Image:Flag of Canada.svg|20px|]] Canada-BCE | |||
||[[Anik (satellite)|Anik A1]] | |||
|- | |||
||[[July 15]] [[1975]] | |||
||First USA-USSR joint mission | |||
||[[Image:Flag of the Soviet Union.svg|20px|]] USSR [[Image:Flag of the United States.svg|20px|]] USA-NASA | |||
||[[Apollo-Soyuz Test Project]] | |||
|} |