Space exploration

Space Exploration

By Alexander#1

  • Sputnik 1

    Sputnik 1
    , the first man-made object in space, is launched by the U.S.S.R., and remains in space until January 4, 1958. U.S.S.R. also launched a sputnik 2 that launched a dog in to space.
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    Space timeline

    TIME LINE

  • Explorer 1

    Explorer 1
    the first U.S. satellite in orbit. It launched at Cape Canaveral.
    We were beat by the russians though.

  • Mercury Friendship 7

    Mercury Friendship 7
    Lifted off with John H. Glenn, Jr., the first American in space, and orbited the Earth three times. Which happened to be a very long trip.

  • Vostok 6

    Vostok 6
    Vostok 6 carries Soviet Cosmonaut Valentia Tereshkova, the first woman in space and orbits the Earth 48 times. Which was 45 more times then John glenn.

  • Gemini 7

    Gemini 7
    Gemini 7 is launched carrying Frank Borman and James A. Lovell, Jr., making 206 orbits around Earth. And this trip proved a trip to the Moon possible.

  • Soviet Luna 9

    Soviet Luna 9
    Soviet Luna 9 is the first spacecraft to soft-land on the moon. Sent by the USSR.

  • Surveyor 1

    Surveyor 1
    Surveyor 1 is the first U.S. spacecraft to soft-land on the Moon. This was a very great acheivement.

  • Apollo 11

    Apollo 11
    Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin, Jr. make the first man controlled soft landing on the Moon, and the first moonwalk on Apollo 11. This is where the phrase one small step for man and one giant leap for mankind came from.

  • Mariner 9

    Mariner 9
    • The US sends out Mariner 9. This becomes the first spacecraft to view Mars from orbit.

  • Skylab

    Skylab
    In 1973, NASA sends its first space station, Skylab, into orbit. But Skylab is abandoned in 1974

  • First international Space Rendezvous

    First international Space Rendezvous
    Apollo 18 and Soviet Soyuz 19 dock, the first international spacecraft meeting.

  • Pioneer 11

    Pioneer 11
    Pioneer 11 reaches Saturn, and takes the first close-up pictures of Saturn.

  • Venera 13

    Venera 13
    Venera 13 lands on Venus, and collects the first soil sample from Venus.

  • Challenger mission

    Challenger mission
    Sally K. Ride is the first U.S. woman to travel in space, on Challenger mission.

  • First Woman To walk in space

    First Woman To walk in space
    Katherine Sullivan becomes the first American woman to walk in space.

  • Voyager 2

    Voyager 2
    Voyager 2 flies past Uranus. it was the sirst craft to sly that far.

  • Galileo

    Galileo
    U.S. launches the Galileo ship, which took infrared images of Venus, and images of the asteroid Ida, before continuing to Jupiter.

  • Magellan

    Magellan
    Magellan enters the atmosphere of Venus. It burned up ending its mapping mission

  • First Jupiter Landing

    First Jupiter Landing
    The Galileo spacecraft lands on Jupiter, which orbits while dropping a probe into the atmosphere, and putting a satellite into orbit, which will spend the next two years orbiting the planet.

  • Endeaver

    Endeaver
    Space Shuttle Endeavour is launched carrying the Raffaello logistics module back to the ISS with new supplies.