Space Exploration

By audrey_chan

  • First Earth Orbiter

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    Space Exploraton Timeline

  • Attempted Earth orbiter (launch failure)

  • Successful Lunar Fly By

  • Interplanetary Space Investigations

  • Attempted Venus Impact ( failed to escape Earth orbit)

  • Venus flyby (contact lost)

  • 12 April 1961 – First manned Earth orbiter

  • Attempted Venus Fly By ( Launch Failure)

  • Mars flyby (contact lost)

  • Attempted Venus probe ( Failed to escape Earth orbit )

  • Attempted Lunar Test Flight ( Launch Failure )

  • Attempted Lunar Fly By and Return ( Launch Failure )

  • Attempted lunar orbiter (launch failure)

  • Attempted Lunar Orbit ( Launch Failure

  • Attempted Lunar Orbiter ( Launch Failure )

  • Attempted Venus probe (failed to escape Earth orbit)

  • 3 March 1972 – First Jupiter flyby

  • First Saturn Fly By

  • Mars orbiter and lander; first long-lived lander and first pictures from Martian surface

  • Attempted Mars orbiter (failed to enter Mars orbit)

  • Attempted flyby of three comet nuclei (launch failure)

  • Asteroid lander and sample return (expected return June 2010)

  • Mars orbiter/lander (lander failure)

  • Lunar orbiter (Crashed September 2006)

  • China's first manned Earth orbiter 2004

  • Lunar orbiter

  • 2 March 2004 – ( Don't know exact date )Comet orbiter and lander (expected arrival 2014)

  • No date yet ( Planned ) Lunar orbiter