Space+Time+Line

Space Events

The following space events are important historical events that happened between 1961 and 1981. Your Mission
 * 1) Find out when these events took place. You may use books or the internet (make sure you have a parent or teacher permission)
 * 2) Using (insert time line program) create a time line
 * 3) save and/or print your time line.

Events: (not in any order, it is your job to put them in order)
 * 1) Alan Shepard, Jr. - First American in space in a suborbital flight.
 * 2) First joint space mission between the U.S.A. and U.S.S.R - a two-craft rendezvous in space.
 * 3) Columbia space shuttle completed 36 orbits - halted due to ruined fuel cells.
 * 4) First U.S. manned space laboratory to orbit Earth.
 * 5) Edward H. White II - First American to walk in space.
 * 6) John Glenn, Jr. - First American space flight to orbit Earth
 * 7) Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin - Man's first walk on the moon.
 * 8) Man can live and work on the moon.