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The space timeline
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The first satellite
The first earth-orbiting satelite was launched -
weather satelite
the first successful weather satellite, is launched by the U.S. -
sapacecraft
Soviet Luna 9 is the first spacecraft to soft-land on the moon. -
Spacecraft fails to bring back data but was the first to make it to another planet
March 1, 1966 - Soviet Venera 3 impacts on Venus, the first spacecraft to reach another planet. It fails to return data. -
First spacecraft to orbit the moon.
March, 1966 - Soviet Luna 10 is the first spacecraft to orbit the moon. -
Travel through asteroid belt.
July 15, 1972 - Pioneer 10 becomes the first man-made object to travel through the asteroid belt -
First military station launched
Soviet Salyut 3, their first military space station, is launched. It remains in orbit until January 1975. -
The galaxy is smaller than they thought
April, 1986 - Astronomers find that our galaxy is smaller than they thought and the Sun is 23,000 light-years from it's center -
We fly around jupiter and on its way to the sun.
February 8, 1992 - Spacecraft Ulysses flies around Jupiter, on its way to the sun -
launches the first discovery series of spacecraft.
February 17, 1996 - NASA launches the first in the Discovery series of spacecraft,