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August 21, 1957 Intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)

This missile,s range was greater than 5,500 km or 3,500 miles

The missile was designed for nuclear weapon delivery

January 31, 1958 First US satellite; detection of Van Allen belts USA-ABMA

The Van Allen radiation belt is a tours of Energetic Charged Particle (know as  Plasma) around Earth, which is held in place by Earths Magnetic Field.

This is where the first american satellite was found and placed

January 4, 1959 Artificial satellite (Sun's) USSR luna 1 was the first know spacecraft to reach the moon successful

April 12, 1961 Human in orbit USSR

Gagarin became an international celebrity, and was awarded many medals and honors, including Hero of the Soviet Union, the nation's highest honor.

He was also know as the first person in space.

July 10, 1962 First active communications satellite USA-AT&T

A communications satellite (sometimes abbreviated to COMSAT) is an artificial satellite stationed in space for the purpose of  telecommunication  Modern communications satellites use a variety of orbits including geostationary orbits Molniya orbits  other elliptical orbits and low (polar and non-polar) Earth orbits.

June 16, 1963 Woman in orbit USSR

Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova is a retired soviet cosmonaut, and was the first woman in space. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_Space_Race