Space Race

Edward White on a spacewalk during the Gemini 4 mission

Sputnik 1

Teddy bears lifted to 30,085 metres

Atlas-B rocket with SCORE on the launch pad

Dwight D. Eisenhower

1960: Echo 1A

1962: Telstar

1963: Syncom 2

1972: Anik 1

1974: Westar

1976: Marisat

Laika

Sputnik 2

Belka and Strelka

Zond 5

Yuri Gagarin

Freedom 7

Alan Shepard

John Glenn

James Lovell

Frank Borman

Bill Anders

Neil Armstrong

Apollo 11

Michael Collins

Buzz Aldrin

Moon 1969