10 Interesting Fact About The history of the Space Race

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• Space competition began on October 4, 1957 when the Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1, the first man -made satellite that was successfully launched into the Earth's orbit.
• The United States Apollo Program leads in the space race after successfully landing the first man on the month on July 20, 1969.
• In 1961, Yuri Gagarin became the first human who succeeded in orbiting the earth.
• Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins became the Apollo 11 crew which managed to land the first human on the month on July 20, 1969.
• The Soviet Union became the first country to succeed in sending women into space in 1963, namely Valentina Tereshkova.
• In 1986, Challenger's shuttle exploded while taking off, killing all of his crew, including Christa Mcauliffe, the first teacher chosen to fly into space.
• In 1967, three Apollo 1 crew were killed in a fire while they were doing a simulation in the capsule.
• International Space Station (ISS) is the result of cooperation between the United States, Russia, Japan, Canada and Europe.
• Columbia's shuttle exploded while carrying out the STS-107 mission in 2003, killing all of its crew, including Ilan Ramon, the first Israeli astronaut.
• In 1984, Bruce McCandless II became the first human to make a spacewalk without using a safety rope.