Pioneer 4, first interplanetary probe

What if Russia's Luna I crashed to the Moon while USA's Pionner 4 is the first to enter interplanetary space?

Timeline
1945: Anthony Marchione was shot down by part of the Imperial Japanese air force, causing General Mcarthur to interpret this as an act of non-surrender. Small skirmishes between US and Japanese forces ensued but it was quickly brought to a resolution fortunately. Point of divergence.

October 1957: Russia's Sputnik I became the first satellite in orbit.

1958: NASA is formed in USA.

January 1959: Russia's Luna I hit the Moon.

March 1959: NASA's Pioneer 4 spacecraft became the first object to go into interplanetary space.

January 1961: The U.S. launched the first hominid "Ham" into space.

March 24, 1961: NASA astronaut is the first man in space, with a suborbital flight of the Freedom 7 space capsule.

April 12, 1961: USSR's Yuri Gagarin became the first man to go into orbit.

April 17, 1961: The Bays of Pigs invasion against Cuba by the United States commences, though it will ultimately fail.

May 25, 1961: As in OTL, U.S. President Kennedy delivers the moonshot speech in the Congress. In response the USSR ordered the preparation for their own moonshot as well.

July 21, 1961: NASA astronaut Gus Grissom is the second American in space, although his space capsule sunk into ocean after splashdown as in OTL.

August 1961: The Berlin Wall construction is started.

February 20, 1962: John Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth.

July 22, 1962: U.S. spacecraft Mariner 1 is launched as the first American mission to flyby a planet. It will return first images of the planet Venus.

August 27, 1962: Mariner 2 is launched as a successor of the Mariner 1 mission.

November 22, 1963: Assassination of President Kennedy.

1965: Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov made the first spacewalk.

1966: USSR cosmonaut Irina Solovyova became the first woman to conduct a spacewalk in the Voskhod 5 mission.

1967: In this TL the Soyuz 1 tragedy didn't happen at all. Apollo 1 ends up in a disaster.

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

1969: Russia launched the first lunar rover Lunokhod 1. Later that year NASA's Neil Armstrong is the first to walk on the Moon.

1971: Soviet Union launched the Salyut 1 space station.

1974: Cosmonaur Alexei Leonov became the first Russian to land on the Moon in a LK spacecraft. This shocked the whole world.

1975: An Apollo spacecraft docked with a Soyuz spacecraft, marking the end of the Space Race.

1976: NASA launched a space station based on the Self-Deploying Space Station design, becoming the first space station with artificial gravity.

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: Collapse of the USSR.

1996: NASA Mars probe Sojourner is launched.

1998: The International Space Station is launched.

2008: The Large Hadron Collider went online.

2010: In this TL NASA's Constellation program is not canceled by the USA. Japanese spacecraft IKAROS became the world's first interplanetary solar sail spacecraft.

2011: NASA retired its space shuttle fleet. Russia's Phobos-Grunt spacecraft is launched to Mars, with Chinese Mars probe Yinghuo-1 as a piggyback payload.

2012: Phobos-Grunt arrives at the Martian system.

2014: Phobos-Grunt returns to Earth with the samples from Phobos the Martian moon. Russia invades Ukraine outrightly after the latter sunk one of the former's ship during a crisis.

2016: Hillary Clinton won the U.S. presidential election.