IN CONTEXT
Space race
1926 Robert Goddard launches the world’s first liquid-fueled rocket.
1942 Germany successfully launches the first ballistic missile, the A4, or V-2.
1961 Alan Shepard commands Freedom 7 on the first Mercury mission, becoming the first American in space.
July 20, 1969 American Neil Armstrong becomes the first man to set foot on the moon.
1971 Russia’s Salyut 1, the world’s first space station, is launched.
1997 A US rover named Sojourner wheels on to the surface of Mars to explore the surface.
2015 Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter finds water on Mars.
On October 4, 1957, the USSR launched the world’s first artificial satellite, ...
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