A Man is finished when he quits

What if Richard Nixon won the 1960 US election? This is a timeline based on that of alternatehistory.com.

Timeline
1960: Richard Nixon, instead of JFK, won that year's presidential election. Main point of divergence.

January 1961: Nixon is inaugurated as the 35th President of the United States.

April 12, 1961: Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin is launched into space, however he was left stranded there to die after the retrorockets of Vostok I malfunctioned, sending shockwaves throughout the whole world.

April 23, 1961: Yuri Gagarin became the first person to die in space. The last transmission from him was "I see everything, just as I have seen everything… The Earth, the clouds, the mountains. The flight continues… but all instruments are beginning their failure. I am at peace. And shall die in peace. I cannot breathe well…………………Farewell Comrades… " Afterwards Nixon sent condolences to USSR and Gagarin's family on behalf of USA.

May 2, 1961: The Vostok I spacecraft's finally decayed form orbit and reenters the atmosphere.

May 5, 1961: NASA's Alan Shepard became the first man to go into space and return alive.

May 12, 1961: Nixon approved an invasion of Communist Cuba under "Operation Pluto".

May 19, 1961: Russian cosmonaut Gherman Titov became the first person to go into orbit, and return alive. Around this time Kennedy and his wife were divorced.

June 1961: The Castro Brothers were killed in Cuba.

August 1961: The Vostok 3 mission is launched from USSR with Andriyan Nikolayev as its crew.

November 1961: Jose Cardona became the president of the liberated Cuba. Remnants of Castroite communists became guerrillas.

February 1962: John Glenn became the first American in orbit.

April 5, 1962: Nixon visited Cuba.

June 1962: Che Guevara is killed in Cuba.

December 1962: The Turkish missile crisis began, sending the world to the brink of a nuclear war, though this will end peacefully.

1963: NASA moved on to the Gemini Program, with an eventual aim to build a space station and sending people to the Moon.

1965:USSR cosmonaut Alexei Leonov is the first to conduct a spacewalk.

1966: USSR lunar lander "Luna 9" crashed onto the Moon while Luna 10 missed it, causing NASA's Surveyor 1 and Lunar Orbiter 1 to become the first object to soft land on the Moon and to orbit it respectively.

1967: USSR Soyuz 1, carrying Komarov, successfully concluded. Apollo I disaster.

1968: NASA's Apollo 8 flew around the Moon.

March 1969: USSR cosmonauts Alexei Leonov and Oleg Makarov flew around the Moon in a Soyuz spacecraft.

May 1969: Cosmonauts V. Bykovsky and Nikolai Rukavishnikov flew around the Moon for a second time on behalf of their nation.

July 4, 1969: The test firing of Soviet N1 rocket is successful.

July 20, 1969: NASA astronaut Neil Armstrong is the first human to land on the Moon.

September 1969: Test flight of MOL 1 which was a first unmanned Gemini-B/Titan IIIM qualification flight (Gemini-B flown alone, without an active MOL)

Late 1969: China launched the Asian's first satellite "Dong-Fang-Hong I".

February 1970: MOL 2 the second unmanned Gemini-B/Titan 3M qualification flight (Gemini-B flown alone, without an active MOL) is launched.

December 1970: The U.S. launched the world's first space station with James Taylor and Albert Crews as the station crews who will stay on orbit for 30 days.

1971: USSR launched Salyut 1 the first space station.

1972: After NASA's conclusion of Apollo 20, they began to plot for a lunar base. USSR landed Alexei Leonov on the Moon that year.

1973: Launch of NASA's Skylab space station. Meanwhile China launched Fang Guojun their first man in space in this TL in Shuguang-1 mission, though there will be a long hiatus after this due to the chaos of the Cultural Revolution.

1974: Unlike in OTL, NASA launched Pioneer H into the interstellar space. USSR landed a man in the lunar south pole.

1975: USSR sent Irina Solovyova to land on the Moon, becoming the first woman to do so.

1976: First components of LESA moon base arrives at the surface between the Reinhold and Lansberg Craters in the Sea of Islands. Later on June, a group of three NASA astronauts, namely John Glenn, Frank Borman and Buzz Aldrin, arrived at the location. The 4th of July proved to be one of the most significant moment in American history when these astronauts greeted the peoples of the United States from their lunar base via television feed. They returned to Earth on 20th July and received a hero's welcome more grandiose than Apollo 11. Viking 1 successfully landed on Mars on this year.

1979: Soviet Mars 5M sample return spacecraft is launched to the Red Planet. The successful conclusion of the mission would shock the west, the Martian samples are distributed to some Eastern Bloc countries and delivered to the U.S. and the UK as a goodwill gesture.

1981: NASA launched the first space shuttle "Columbia".

1984: Soviet space probe Vega 1 flew by Halley's comet.

1986: Challenger space shuttle disaster.

1989: NASA interplanetary probe "Galileo" is launched to Jupiter.

1991: The Soviet Union and most of the Communist World collapses.

1996: NASA Mars probe Sojourner is launched.

1998: First part of the International Space Station (ISS) is launched to low Earth orbit.

2003: Europa Orbiter is sent to the namesake Jovian moon with the aid of a Space Shuttle.

2008: The Large Hadron Collider went online.

2011: NASA retired its space shuttle fleet. Meanwhile the Habitation Extension Module is added to ISS and Russia's Phobos Grunt spacecraft is launched to its target.