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First animal intentionally sent to space
The first animal sent to space were fruit fly. They were launched in a captured Nazi V-2 rocket. The flies reached an altitude of 68 miles and recovered alive by parachute -
The first Monkey, Albert A Vhesus, in Space
Albert rode over 63 km on a V2 rocket. Albert died of suffocation during the flight -
The worlds first artificial Satellite.
Sputnik 1. The soviet union successfully launched the Sputnik. -
The first dog into space.
The dogs name was Laika. Laika became the first living being to orbit the earth on Sputnik 2. She died several hours into flight from stress and heat. -
Vanguard Tv3
The first attempt to launch a satellite into orbit. Was also the first failed rocket. After 2 seconds of launch, the thrust sank back down exploding the fuel tanks. -
National Aeronautics and Space Administration began operation. (NASA)
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Pioneer I: First NASA launch.
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The United States launched Pioneer 3,
The first U.S. satellite to ascend to an altitude of 63,580 miles. -
Pioneer 4 was the first U.S Lunar flyby
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NASA launched Mercury 1
The first Mercury - Red stone capsule - launched vehicle combination. This was an unoccupied test flight. -
Yuri Gagarin was the first human into space.
Traveled into space on the Vostok 3KA-3 -
President John F. Kennedy unveiled the commitment to execute Project Apollo on this date in a speech on "Urgent National Needs,"
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NASA accomplished the first successful test of the Saturn 1 rocket
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The first woman into space
Valentina Tereshkova was the first women to go into space. In the Vosrok 6. She orbited earth 48 times. -
The United States launched Intelsat I, the first commercial satellite (communications), into geostationary orbit.
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Mariner 4 Mission
Closet we had been to mars. This mission provided first close up pictures of Mars. -
Project Gemini
2 astronaut crew
put the U.S in the lead during the Cold War Space Race.
10 flights. -
Apollo 1 Tragedy
The Apollo program was designed to land humans on the Moon and bring them safely back to Earth. Six of the missions (Apollos 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, and 17) achieved this goal. Apollos 7 and 9 were Earth orbiting missions to test the Command and Lunar Modules, and did not return lunar data. -
Apollo 10 Space Vehicle is launched
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The first lunar landing mission, Apollo 11 lifted off on 16 Jul. 1969
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Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin stepped foot on the moon
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Apollo 13 was a near disaster for NASA
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The last man on the moon
Eugene Cernan was the last person on the moon. It was during mission Apollo 17
Which meant there was 11 people total on the moon. -
Solar Maxium Mission
The first launch/mission to study the sun in detail, over the course of heavy sunspot activity -
The united states launched STS-5, the space shuttle Columbia
The 4 astronauts abroad deployed 2 commercial communications satellites. -
STS-41D: First flight of Space Shuttle Discovery
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The first Department Of Defense dedicated mission.
The space shuttle Atlantis deployed a classified satellite. -
Voyager 2 encounters Uranus and Neptune
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The Challenger disintegrated 73 seconds into flight.
It killed all 7 astronauts -
STS-49: First flight of space shuttle Endeavour,
Including the three-person space walk, which captured a private satellite for repair and reboost. -
Galilea
Probe released into Jupiter's Atmosphere -
The Columbia Explodes while reentering the atmosphere
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Exploration Rovers Spirit and Opportunity landed on Mars
NASA succesfully landed the 2 Mars Exploration Rovers on the surface of Mars in the span of 3 weeks -
The Space Shuttle Discovery launched siccessfully into Orbit
Marking NASA's first return to human spaceflight after the columbia tragedy. -
The last Space shuttle went to space
The space shuttle is Atlantis.
This will be NASA 135 mission.
Atlantis' 12-day mission will deliver vital spare parts to the space station to help keep the orbiting lab going after the shuttle era ends.
