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Man-made satellite
Sputnik 1: The first artificial satellite to orbit Earth. The first artificial satellite, was launched by the Soviet Union and initiating the Soviet Sputnik program, with Sergei Korolev as chief designer -
Laika
Laika was a Soviet space dog who became one of the first animals in space, and the first animal to orbit the Earth. Laika, a stray dog from the streets of Moscow, was selected to be the occupant of the Soviet spacecraft Sputnik 2 -
NASA founded
During the next decade, NASA became synonymous with the space race. In May 1961, President John F. Kennedy announced that the United States should set a goal of putting a man on the moon by the end of the decade. -
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was a Russian Soviet pilot and cosmonaut. He was the first human to journey into outer space, when his Vostok spacecraft completed an orbit of the Earth on 12 April 1961 -
Alan B. Shepard
Mercury Astronaut Alan B. Shepard, Jr. blasted off in his Freedom 7 capsule atop a Mercury-Redstone rocket His 15-minute sub-orbital flight made him the first Americanin space. -
First american in orbit
John Glenn rocketed into space aboard the Mercury capsule Friendship 7. He became the third American in space and the first to orbit Earth -
First woman in space
Valentina Tereshkova, having been selected from more than four hundred applicants and five finalists to pilot Vostok 6 on 16 June 1963. In order to join the Cosmonaut Corps, Tereshkova was only honorarily inducted into the Soviet Air Force and thus she also became the first civilian to fly in space -
First space walk
Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov made the first spacewalk in history, beating out American rival Ed White on Gemini 4 by almost three months. -
two persons on the moon
Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that landed the first humans on the Moon, Americans Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin -
Skylab launched
Skylab was a space station launched and operated by NASA and was the United States' first space station. Skylab orbited the Earth from 1973 to 1979, and included a workshop, a solar observatory, and other systems. -
Skylab falls to earth
Skylab orbited the Earth from 1973 to 1979, and included a workshop, a solar observatory, and other systems. -
First shuttle launch
STS-1 was the first orbital flight of NASA's Space Shuttle program -
First american woman in space
Sally Ride became the first American woman to fly in space when the space shuttle Challenger launched on mission STS-7. -
challenger disaster
broke apart 73 seconds into its flight, leading to the deaths of its seven crew members, which included five NASA astronauts and two payload specialists. -
Hubble telescope
The Hubble Space Telescope is a space telescope that was launched into low Earth orbit in 1990, and remains in operation. With a 2.4-meter mirror, Hubble's four main instruments observe in the near ultraviolet, visible, and near infrared spectra. -
First landng on an asteriod
Shoemaker (NEAR Shoemaker), named in honor of planetary scientist Gene Shoemaker, was designed to study the near Earth asteroid 433 Eros, one of the largest of the near Earth asteroids, from close orbit over a period of one year. -
Columbia disaster
During the launch of STS-107, Columbia's 28th mission, a piece of foam insulation broke off from the Space Shuttle external tank and struck the left wing killing all seven crew members. -
mars rover spirit
resulting in higher power from its solar panels, Spirit went on to function effectively over twenty times longer than NASA planners expected. Spirit also logged 7.73 km (4.8 mi) of driving instead of the planned 600 m (0.4 mi),[5] allowing more extensive geological analysis of Martian rocks and planetary surface features. -
Cassini-Huygens
Titan in 2005. Cassini is the fourth space probe to visit Saturn and the first to enter orbit, and its mission is ongoing as of 2015. The two-part spacecraft is named after astronomers Giovanni Cassini and Christiaan Huygens. -
Mars rover opportunity
active on the planet Mars since 2004. twin is spirit -
International space station
construction of an Earth-orbiting space station. Zarya, the first ISS module, was launched by a Proton rocket on 20 November 1998. The STS-88 shuttle mission followed two weeks after Zarya was launched, bringing Unity, the first of three node modules, and connecting it to Zarya. This bare 2-module core of the ISS remained unmanned for the next one and a half years, until in July 2000 the Russian module Zvezda was added, allowing a minimum crew of two astronauts or cosmonauts to be on the ISS per -
Last shuttle launch
STS-135 (ISS assembly flight ULF7)[4] was the 135th and final mission of the American Space Shuttle program -
Mars rover curiosity
assessment of whether the selected field site inside Gale Crater has ever offered environmental conditions favorable for microbial life, including investigation of the role of water; and planetary habitability studies in preparation for future human exploration
