Space Exploration By gmiller2686 Mar 16, 1926 Robert Goddard launches 1st Successful Liquid Fuel Rocket Oct 4, 1957 Soviet Union launches Sputnik Nov 3, 1957 Sputnik 2 carried a Dog into Space Jan 31, 1958 US launches Explorer 1 Apr 12, 1961 Yuri Gagarin is the First man launched into Space Mar 18, 1965 Alexei Leonov is the 1st man to walk in space Feb 20, 1967 Apollo completes 1st manned mission for Apollo program Oct 11, 1968 Apollo 7 broadcasts Live TV from Space Dec 24, 1968 Apollo 8 sends astronauts orbiting the Moon Jul 20, 1969 Neil Armstrong is the 1st man to walk on the moon Jan 31, 1971 Apollo 14 lands more Astronauts on the Moon Apr 19, 1971 Soviets Successfully launch First Space Station: Salyut May 30, 1971 American space orbiter Mariner 9 surveys Mars May 14, 1973 NASA launches the first space station into space Jan 28, 1976 Space Shuttle Challenger Incident Jul 20, 1976 NASA lands the first spacecraft on Mars Sep 5, 1977 Voyager 1 & 2 deep space probes launched Jul 4, 1997 Mars Pathfinder landed on Mars and deployed the Sojourner rover Nov 20, 1998 International Space Station is launched into space Feb 1, 2003 Space shuttle Columbia Incident 2024 NASA sends astronauts back to the Moon
