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Sputnik
Sputnik orbites Earth for the first time and marked the start of the U.S.A - U.S.S.R. space race. -
Frank Drake
Dr. Drake creates an equation that predicts how many extraterrestral civilizations we might come across in our gallaxy. His answer was 2.31. This gives us a prediction on how many to expect to see in our future. -
John Glenn
John Glenn finished his orbit around the Earth to become the first American to do so. this gave U.S.A. advantage in space race. -
Pioneer 7
The Pioneer 7 was build to obsever Halieys comet. After waiting till March 20 1986 the pioneer saw the comet and started taking obseverations. The Pioneer 7is part of the reason we know so much of this comet. -
Pioneer Venus 1
The goal was to get more information on Halieys comet and get information about the atmosphere and surface of venus. In 1992 it headed home. It has gotten maps for the venus surface and thats why we know so much about it. -
Spaceshuttle Columbia
The Spaceshuttle Columbia is lanuched for first time piloted by John Young. This space shuttle is used for many more future missions. -
Challenger
The Challenger is lanched. It is a space shuttle. It will later have an impack on many lives and will give us valuable information about space. -
Guion S. Bluford
Guion S. Bluford became the first African American woman in space. This gave Afican American women big break in space missions -
First woman on Challenger
Sally Ride became the first woman astronaut on the STS-7 Challenger in 1983. This gave women a big boast in space missions. -
Bruce McCandless and Robert Stewert
Bruce and Robert make first space walks with jet packs on challenger flight without any connection to spaceshuttle. This step would later go on to moon walks and other space walks. -
Challenger explodes
The Challenger explodes only 73 seconds into the flight. This hurt many lives because it was broadcasted on T.V.. -
Galieo spacecraft
Atlantis launches the Galileo spacecraft. This Spaceshuttle helped us get infomation on the Galileoan Moons. -
Hubble Space Telescope
Discovery launches the Hubble Space Telescope. The Hubble telescope has helped find and lead to many space achevements. -
Sergei Krikaleu
Sergei Krikaleu became the first Russian astronaut on an U.S. mission. Now Russians were welcome on U.S. missions were a great break for everyone including the U.S.A -
Shannon Lucid
Shannon Lucid was dropped off on Mir from Atlantis for 181 days setting womens records for longest time in space. She showed Women are just as capabale as men our in space. -
Planet found
Genzya University found a new planet that could contain water and orbits around a star about the same distance from the Earth to the sun. It is about 6 times the size of Jupiter. This could mean if we adavance our space travel we could live on another planet. -
Repair on Hubble
Columbia has to make the 4th repair on Hubble telescope with in being in space. Will it later just stop working in future. -
Columbia Breaks
15 minutes before completing the 28th Columbia mission it falls and breaks apart and all 7 crew members die. It shows that you can't cheer until the mission or game is over. -
Hubble telescope
Using the Hubble telescope scientist find the first sign of organic molecules on other planets. Meaning we might have found live on another planet. -
Atlantis retired
When the spaceshuttle Atlantis came back to the Kennedy space center on july 21 NASA retired the spaceshuttle after the 30 years of space service. -
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