space

By shavel

  • first satalite launched

    first satalite launched
    7:28p.m Sputnik 1 launched.

  • First human in space

    First human in space
    Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin

  • First American in space

    First American in space
    Commander Alan Bartlett Shephard Jr.

  • First man to circle the earth

    First man to circle the earth
    John Glenn

  • First space walk

    First space walk
    Alexey Leonov was the first person to "spacewalk'.

  • Apollo 1 mission

    Apollo 1 mission
    A fire occured inside of the space capsule, 3 people died.

  • Apollo 8 mission

    Apollo 8 mission
    Took astronauts farther than they had ever gone before, the crew beame the first people to orbit another world.

  • Apollo 11 mission

    Apollo 11 mission
    the objective was to preform a crew lunar landing and return back to earth. It launched Armstrong, Collins and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin into an initial earth orbit.

  • Apollo 13 mission

    Apollo 13 mission
    An explosion occured in one of the oxegyn tanks.

  • Apollo 17 mission

    Apollo 17 mission
    It was the last Apollo mission to land man on the moon, it carried Harrison Schmitt.

  • Mariner 10 launched

    Mariner 10 launched
    First mission to Mercury.

  • Voyager 2 Launched

    Voyager 2 Launched
    Was to conduct closeup studies of Jupiter and Saturn, Saturn's rings, and the larger moons of the two planets.

  • First Space Shuttle Launch

    First Space Shuttle Launch
    20 years after the first manned space flight.

  • First American woman in space

    First American woman in space
    Sally Ride

  • Challenger Disaster

    Challenger Disaster
    It broke apart 73 seconds into its flight, and killed 7 people.

  • Galileo Launched

    Galileo Launched
    Studied Jupiter and its moons.

  • Hubble launched

    Hubble launched
    For more information on the universe around us.

  • International Space Station construction finished

    International Space Station construction finished
    Zarya

  • First tourist in space

    First tourist in space
    Dennis Tito was the first tourist in space.

  • Columbia Disaster

    Columbia Disaster
    Disintegrated over Texas and Louisiana as it reentered Earth's atmosphere, killing all seven crew members.

  • First Launch of Space ship One

    First Launch of Space ship One
    Space Ship One is a suborbital air-launched spaceplane that completed the first manned private spaceflight in 2004.

  • New Horizons Launched

    New Horizons Launched
    The mission is to find PLuto, then visit one or more Kuiper Belt Objects beyond Pluto.

  • First Chinese space walk

    First Chinese space walk
    Zhai Zhigang became his countrys first spacewalker.

  • Last Space Shuttle Launch

    Last Space Shuttle Launch
    STS-135

  • Curiosity Mars Landing

    Curiosity Mars Landing
    Curiosity is a car-sized robotic rover exploring Gale Crater on Mars.

  • New Horizons reaches Pluto

    even though it already has reached Pluto they want to see if it can go farther into the Kupier belt.