In 1961, the United States and the Soviet Union found themselves in a race to put the first human being into space. The United States initiated Project Mercury in 1958 to put the first American into space and selected its first group of astronauts in 1959 to begin training for that mission...
First man on the moon – 20thJuly 1969 – Neil Armstrong from Apollo 11 First persons to spend four weeks in space – 25thMay – 22ndJune 1973 – Pete Conrad, Joseph Kerwin and Paul Weitz in Skylab 2 First American woman in space – June 18th1983 – Sally Ride in Space Shuttle Challeng...
On April 12, 1961, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human to fly into space. His vehicle, Vostok 1 circled Earth at a speed of 27,400 km/h.
Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, the world's first man in space, is seen in his spacesuit in a scene from the documentary, "First Voyage to the Stars," which was screened at the 2nd Moscow International Film Festival in 1961. Bettman Archives/Getty Images There have been a lot of groundbreaking ...
Overseen byYuri Gagarin(the first man in space) the selection process for female cosmonauts began in mid-1961. Since there weren't many female pilots in the Soviet air force, women parachutists were considered as a possible field of candidates. Tereshkova, along with three other women parachutis...
Women have set many records in space and achieved a number of spaceflight firsts. We take a look at some of these pioneering women in this gallery.
" a movie based on Armstrong's training journey to become the first man on the moon. And a new documentary about Apollo 11, directed by Todd Douglas Miller, premiered in March 2019. Additionally, the National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C., has a number of special events and...
President John F. Kennedy gave inspiration and hopeto the American people in his speech to Congress on May 25, 1961 in which he stated, "I believe that this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of landing a man on the moon and returning him ...
百度试题 结果1 题目5 The first man to travel in space, Yuri Gagarin , was尤里·加加林,第一个在太空中行走的人,是a American 美国人b German 德国人c Russian 俄国人 相关知识点: 试题来源: 解析 5 反馈 收藏
the canvases [at the Vollard show] were not presented as they usually are today, with plenty of space and in a single line, but on top of one another almost to the ceiling and unframed, while some were not even on stretchers but in large folders, at the mercy of any collector or vi...