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gantt title The Space Race (1957–1975) dateFormat YYYY-MM-DD axisFormat %Y section USSR Sputnik Program :done, sputnik, 1957-10-04, 1958-05-15 Sputnik 1#colon; First satellite to orbit Earth :milestone, 1957-10-04, 1d Sputnik 2#colon; Laika the dog becomes the first animal to orbit Earth :milestone, 1957-11-03, 1d Luna Program :done, luna, 1959-01-02, 1975-07-24 Luna 1#colon; First spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the moon :milestone, 1959-01-02, 1d Luna 1#colon; First spacecraft to orbit the sun :milestone, 1959-01-04, 1d Luna 2#colon; First hard landing of a spacecraft on the moon :milestone, 1959-09-14, 1d Luna 9#colon; First soft landing of a spacecraft on the moon :milestone, 1966-02-03, 1d Luna 10#colon; First spacecraft to orbit the moon :milestone, 1966-04-03, 1d Vostok Program :done, vostok, 1961-04-12, 1963-06-19 Vostok 1#colon; Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human to orbit Earth :milestone, 1961-04-12, 1d Vostok 6#colon; Valentina Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space :milestone, 1963-06-16, 1d Voskhod Program :done, voskhod, 1964-10-12, 1965-03-18 Voskhod 1#colon; First multiperson spacecraft to orbit Earth :milestone, 1964-10-12, 1d Voskhod 2#colon; Alexei Leonov completes the first spacewalk :milestone, 1965-03-18, 1d Soyuz Program :done, soyuz, 1967-04-23, 1975-07-17 Soyuz 1#colon; Vladimir Komarov becomes the first fatality in spaceflight history :milestone, 1967-04-23, 1d Kosmos 186 & Kosmos 188#colon; First automated docking of two spacecraft :milestone, 1967-10-30, 1d Zond 5#colon; First spacecraft to circle the moon and return safely to Earth :milestone, 1968-09-15, 1d Soyuz 4 & Soyuz 5#colon; First crewed docking and transfer between two spacecraft :milestone, 1969-01-16, 1d section USA NASA#colon; The National Aeronautics and Space Administration is established :milestone, 1958-07-29, 1d Explorers Program :done, explorer, 1958-01-31, 1975-07-24 Explorer 1#colon; First American satellite to orbit Earth :milestone, 1958-02-01, 1d Explorer 6#colon; First photograph of Earth from orbit :milestone, 1959-08-07, 1d Project Mercury :done, mercury, 1958-10-07, 1963-05-16 Mercury-Redstone 2#colon; Ham becomes the first the chimpanzee in space :milestone, 1961-01-31, 1d Freedom 7#colon; Alan Shepard becomes the first American to orbit Earth :milestone, 1962-02-20, 1d Project Gemini :done, gemini, 1961-12-07, 1966-11-15 Gemini 3#colon; First spacecraft to perform piloted orbital maneuvers :milestone, 1965-03-23, 1d Gemini 4#colon; Ed White completes first American spacewalk :milestone, 1965-06-03, 1d Gemini 6A & Gemini 7#colon; First crewed rendezvous of two spacecraft :milestone, 1965-12-15, 1d Gemini 8 & Agena#colon; First crewed docking of two spacecraft in orbit :milestone, 1966-03-16, 1d "We choose to go to the Moon" — President John F. Kennedy :milestone, 1962-09-12, 1d Apollo Program :done, apollo, 1961-05-25, 1972-12-19 Apollo 1#colon; Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee killed in test :milestone, 1968-01-27, 1d Apollo 7#colon; First crewed Apollo mission and TV broadcast from space :milestone, 1968-10-11, 1d Apollo 8#colon; First crewed spacecraft to orbit the moon :milestone, 1968-12-21, 1d Apollo 11#colon; Neil Armstrong becomes first human to walk on the moon :milestone, 1969-07-20, 1d section Partnership Apollo–Soyuz Test Project :done, astp, 1972-01-01, 1975-07-24 President Nixon and Premier Kosygin sign space cooperation agreement :milestone, 1972-05-24, 1d Tom Stafford and Alexei Leonov exchange first international handshake :milestone, 1975-07-17, 1d