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Space Exploration

By anthonyfitzgerald

  • First Man Made Satellite

    First Man Made Satellite
    Sputnik 1: The first artificial satellite to orbit Earth. The first artificial satellite was Sputnik 1, launched by the Soviet Union on October 4, 1957 and Sergei Korolev is the person who designed.

  • First Living Creature In Space

    First Living Creature In Space
    The Soviet Union launched Sputnik 2. On the small satellite was ,Laika, the first animal to orbit Earth. The United States and the U.S.S.R. had been putting animals atop rockets since 1947.

  • NASA Founded

    NASA Founded
    The National Aeronautics and Space Administration(NASA) is the United States government agency responsible for the civilian space program as well as aeronautics and aerospace research.

  • First Human In Space

    First Human In Space
    Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin was the first man sent by the Soviet Union and was a Russian Soviet pilot and cosmonaut

  • First American In Space

    First American In Space
    Astronaut Alan B. Shepard, Jr. blasted off in his Freedom 7.

  • First American In Orbit

    First American In Orbit
    John Herschel Glenn, Jr flew the Friendship 7 mission and became the first American to orbit the Earth and the fifth person in space.

  • First Woman In Space

    First Woman In Space
    Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova is the first woman to have flown in space and she was in Vostok 6

  • First Space Walk

    First Space Walk
    Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov made the first spacewalk

  • First 2 People on the Moon

    First 2 People on the Moon
    Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong as the first men on the Moon with Apollo 11.

  • Skylab Lauched

    Skylab Lauched
    Skylab provided a detailed study of our planet from the incomparable vantage of orbit.

  • Skylab Falls to the Earth

    Skylab Falls to the Earth
    Skylab, America's first manned space station, hurtled toward Earth

  • 1st Shuttle Launch

    1st Shuttle Launch
    STS-1 was the first shuttle in space flew with John W. Young and pilot Robert L. Crippen.

  • First American Woman In Space

    First American Woman In Space
    Sally Ride became the first American woman to fly in space when the space shuttle Challenger

  • Challenger Disaster

    Challenger Disaster
    The Challenger Claimed Seven Lifes As it had a Liftoff Explosion

  • First Landing on an Asteroid

    First Landing on an Asteroid
    Hayabusa in the hope that the probe has successfully gathered tiny fragments of space rock, which could provide more clues about the origin of the solar system.

  • Columbia Disaster

    Columbia Disaster
    Space shuttle Columbia broke up as it returned to Earth, killing the seven astronauts on board.

  • Spirit

    Spirit
    It landed successfully on Mars on January 4, 2004

  • Opportunity

    Opportunity
    Opportunity landed on Mars on January 25, 2004

  • Cassini- Huygens Arrives at Saturn

    Cassini- Huygens Arrives at Saturn
    The international Cassini-Huygens mission has successfully entered orbit around Saturn.

  • Internatiomal Space Station completed

    Internatiomal Space Station completed
    The International Space Station is a large spacecraft. It orbits around Earth. It is a home where astronauts live.The space station is also a science lab. Many countries worked together to build it. They also work together to use it.

  • Last Shuttle Launch

    Last Shuttle Launch
    STS-35, was the most recent

  • Curiosity

    Curiosity
    Curiosity rover successfully landed on Mars the evening of August 5, 2012

  • Hubble Telescope Lauched

    Hubble Telescope Lauched
    The telescope, a basic reflector with a 94.5-inch (2.4-meter) mirror, was packed with instruments that would give astronomers clear views of the universe in visible, infrared and ultraviolet light.