solar system By facebooker_100001954919093 Jan 25, 1957 fire on launch pad kills 3 astronauts Oct 1, 1957 russian launch the first artificial satellite Period: Oct 25, 1957 to Jan 25, 2003 solar system Nov 25, 1957 a dong is sent rom earth to space Oct 25, 1958 launch of first U.S Satellite Oct 25, 1959 russian probe luna 3 send first pictures if the far side of the moon Apr 25, 1961 russian Yuri Gagarin becomes first person in space May 25, 1961 first american in space Jun 25, 1961 NASA launch a chimpaneze Feb 25, 1962 first astronaut orbits earth Dec 25, 1962 NASA 's Mariner 2 scans the surface of Venus Jun 25, 1963 soviet cosmonaut valentina tereshkova becomes first woman in space Mar 25, 1965 alexia leonov makes first space walk Jun 30, 1965 mariner 4 flies by Mars Feb 25, 1966 first moon landing Jan 25, 1967 fure on launch pad apollo 11 kills 3 US astronauts Apr 25, 1967 first death in space Oct 25, 1967 soviet craft Verena 4 land on Venus Dec 25, 1968 first spacecraft to orbit space Apollo 11 Jul 25, 1969 US astronaut Neil Armstrong beecomes first person to walk on the moon Nov 25, 1970 russian rover the first vehicle to drive on the moon Apr 25, 1971 launch of first space station Dec 25, 1973 first space-probe to fly-by Jupiter Mar 25, 1974 first space-probe to fly-by mercury Jul 25, 1975 first US and soviet spacecraft docking Jul 25, 1976 first successful landing on Mars Sep 25, 1979 first saturn fly-by Apr 25, 1981 first space shuttle launch Jan 25, 1986 first uranus flyby Jan 31, 1986 space shuttle Challenger exploded in launch killing all 7 crew Feb 25, 1986 launch of russian space station Mir Mar 21, 1986 first fly-by of Halley's comet Aug 25, 1989 first Neptune fly-by Apr 25, 1990 space shuttles discovery launches the hubbles spaces telescope Nov 25, 1998 the firs tpart of international space station is launched Sep 25, 1999 Mars climate orbiter dissappears after orbitting Mars Dec 25, 1999 Mars polar Lander disappears, creating further embarassment for NASA Mar 25, 2001 Mir space station abondoned and crashes off into the pacific ocean Apr 25, 2001 first tourist in space, dennis Tito Jan 25, 2003 twin Mars Lander missions 'spirit' and 'opportunity' land on Mars Feb 25, 2003 space shuttle, Columbia, explodes killing all 7 astronauts
