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First Satellite Launched
Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite. The Soviet Union launched it into an elliptical low Earth orbit. -
First Human in Space
Yuri Gagarin -
First American in Space
Alan Shepard -
Apollo 11 Mission
It perform a crewed lunar landing and return to Earth. -
First Human to Orbit the Earth
John Glenn -
First Space Walk
Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov made the first spacewalk in history. -
Apollo 1 Mission
A flash fire occurred in command module 012 during a launch pad test of the Apollo/Saturn space vehicle being prepared for the first piloted flight. Three astronauts lost their lives. -
Apollo 8 Mission
The first manned spacecraft to leave Earth orbit, reach the Earth's Moon, orbit it and return safely to Earth. -
Apollo 13 Misssion
The lunar landing was aborted after an oxygen tank exploded two days later, crippling the Service Module. -
Apollo 17 Mission
The final Apollo Mission -
Mariner 10 Launched
The mission objectives were to measure Mercury's environment, atmosphere, surface, and body characteristics and to make similar investigations of Venus -
Voyager 2 Launched
launched to study the outer planets. -
First Space Shuttle Launch
The orbiter Columbia, with two crew members, astronauts John W. Young, commander, and Robert L. Crippen, pilot. -
First American Woman in Space
Sally Ride -
Challenger Disaster
Challenger broke apart 73 seconds into its flight, leading to the deaths of its seven crew members -
Galileo Launched
an unmanned spacecraft that studied the planet Jupiter and its moons, as well as several other Solar System bodies. -
Hubble Launched
A space telescope that was launched into low Earth orbit and remains in operation. -
Zarya
First piece of the international space station launched -
First Tourist in Space
American businessman Dennis Tito -
Colombia Disaster
Columbia disintegrated over Texas and Louisiana as it reentered Earth's atmosphere, killing all seven crew members. -
First Launch of Space Ship One
A suborbital air-launched spaceplane that completed the first manned private spaceflight. -
New Horizions Launched
The spacecraft was launched to study the Pluto system and, in its secondary mission, the Kuiper belt, performing a flyby of Pluto and one or more other Kuiper belt objects. -
First Chinese Space Walk
Zhai Zhigang, wearing a Chinese-developed Feitian space suit, conducted a 22-minute space walk. -
Last Space Shuttle Launch
It used the orbiter Atlantis -
Curiosity Mars Landing
a car-sized robotic rover exploring Gale Crater on Mars as part of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission -
New Horizions Reaches Pluto
