3 facts on the history of space travel?

it has to be on the"history" of space travel

1. It all stared with the first intercontinental ballistic missile.
2. Russia and the United States raced to be the first to put a satellite in space.
3. The united States was first to land a man on the moon.

The first artificial satellite was Sputnik 1, launched by the Soviet Union on 4 October 1957. This triggered the Space Race between the Soviet Union and the United States.

The first human spaceflight was undertaken on April 12, 1961, when cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin made one orbit around the Earth aboard the Vostok 1 spacecraft launched by the Soviet Union.

The first manned moon landing on Earth's Moon was the United States' Apollo 11 mission, commanded by Neil Armstrong accompanied by Edwin 'Buzz' Aldrin. Armstrong landed the lunar module Eagle on the surface of the Moon at 4:17:42 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time, July 20, 1969. They spent a day on the surface of the Moon and then returned to Earth. A total of six such manned moon landings were carried out between 1969 and 1972. The Soviet Union later achieved sample returns via the unmanned moon landings Luna 16, Luna 20 and Luna 24. Since this was during the time of the Cold War, the contest to be the first on the Moon was one of the most visible facets of the space race.

I hope you ment in general ;-)

1. Robert Goddard invented and demonstrated the first liquid fueled rockets.

2. German scientists built the first ballistic missle weapon in WW II( The V2) and then went to work for the Americans and Russians after the war.

3. Russia launched the first orbital sattellite in 1957- Sputnik

4.. Russia put Yuri Gagarin in space first(orbital too!)

5. America landed the only people on the moon and returned them all safely. 1969-1971

Old Guy