Sputnik 1 was launched on Oct 4 1957 http://www.astronomija.com.mk/vest.asp?id=901

Ham the space chimp. The first astronaut shakes hands after his Mercury Redstone flight. http://grin.hq.nasa.gov/ABSTRACTS/GPN-2000-001004.html

1961 An Atlas rocket with Mercury spacecraft http://library.thinkquest.org/C0116628/Mercury.htm

1961 Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin made the first full orbit in space. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuri_Gagarin

1961 Alan Shepard is lifted by helicopter after the first American flight in space. http://science.howstuffworks.com/project-mercury3.htm

1961 America would send a man to the moon before the end of the decade - John Kennedy http://www.thespacereview.com/article/83/1

1961 Alan Shepard http://history.msfc.nasa.gov/mercury/gallery/shepard.html

1962 John Glenn http://www.superkids.com/aweb/pages/surfer/glenn/portrait.sht

1962 John Glenn, along with his son, David, his daughter Lyn, and his wife, Annie, examine the Friendship 7 spacecraft with President Kennedy after the awards ceremony at Cape Canaveral http://library.osu.edu/sites/archives/glenn/celebration/celphotos.htm

1962 Dr. John Houbolt's proposal for the lunar orbit rendezvous method was accepted. http://history.nasa.gov/monograph4/skeptic.htm

1963 Mercury 7. The last Mercury launch with Astronaut Gordon Cooper http://grin.hq.nasa.gov/ABSTRACTS/GPN-2000-000996.html

1964 Gemini 1 launch with the Titan II rocket http://nssdc.gsfc.nasa.gov/database/MasterCatalog?sc=1964-018A

1964 Missile Row on Cape Canaveral- http://grin.hq.nasa.gov/BROWSE/KSC_12.html

Astronaut Edward White of Gemini 4 in the first spacewalk http://home.xnet.com/~cmaddox/35th.html

This photograph of the Gemini 7 spacecraft was taken from the hatch window of the Gemini 6 spacecraft during rendezvous and station keeping maneuvers at an altitude of approximately 160 miles on December 15, 1965. http://kittyhawk.public.hq.nasa.gov/essay/SPACEFLIGHT/gemini/SP18G6.htm

 

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