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Apollo-Soyuz Test Project
Apollo-Soyuz Test Project is the first international manned space flight to test out cooperated space rescue and docking -
United States launches Explorer I
United States launches Explorer I from Cape Canaveral in Florida. -
Soviet Union launches Sputnik I.
soviet Union launches Sputnik 1. -
Sputnik II launches
Sputnik II launches, with ill-fated Laika the dog on board. -
-Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human to enter space
Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human to enter space and return safely -
Alan Sheoard becomes the first American man i space
With the launch of Freedom 7, Alan Shepard becomes the first American man in space. The suborbital flight, which was part of the Mercury Project, lasted 15 minutes, 28 seconds -
First test flight of the Saturn V rocket
First test flight of the Saturn V rocket, which would carry dozens of spacecraft into space in the years to come -
Launch of Apollo 11
Launch of Apollo 11 -
Astronauts Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin and Neil Armstrong are the first man to walk on the moon
Astronauts Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin and Neil Armstrong become the first men to walk on the moon -
Launch of unmanned Pioneer 10
Earth's first space probe to an outer planet, the first spacecraft to travel through the asteroid belt, the first spacecraft to make direct observations and obtain close-up images of Jupiter, and the first man-made object to leave the solar system. Pioneer 10 sent its last communication back to Earth on January 22, 2003, while 7.6 billion miles from home. -
Voyager 1 was lunched
September 5, 1977--Launch of Voyager -
the first space mission in NASA'S space shuttle program
April 12, 1981--Aboard the space shuttle Columbia, Robert L. Crippen and John W. Young make the first mission in NASA's space shuttle program. -
first russian to fly aboard a U.S space shuttle
February 3-11, 1994--Cosmonaut Sergei Krikalev becomes the first Russian to fly aboard a U.S. space shuttle -
launch if Mars Pathfinder
December 4, 1996--Launch of Mars Pathfinder -
SpaceShipOne
September 30, 2004--SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately built craft to reach outer space -
Phoenix lander launched
August 4, 2007--Phoenix lander launches on its way to explore the northern pole of Mars.
