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Sputnik
First satalite launched -
Yuri Gagarin
First human in space -
Alan Shepard
First American in space -
First space walk
In March 1965, at the age of 30, Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov made the first spacewalk in history, beating out American rival Ed White on Gemini 4 by almost three months -
Apollo 1 mission.
Failure do to cabin fire on launch rehearsel test. -
Apollo 11
First spaceflight to land humans on the moon. -
Apollo 17
Apollo 17 was the final mission of NASA's Apollo program, the enterprise that landed the first humans on the moon. -
Mariner 10 launched
Mariner 10 was an American robotic space probe launched by NASA on November 3, 1973, to fly by the planets Mercury and Venus. Mariner 10 was launched approximately two years after Mariner 9 and was the last spacecraft in the Mariner program -
Voyager 2 launched
Voyager 2 is a space probe launched by NASA on August 20, 1977 to study the outer planets. Part of the Voyager program, it was launched 16 days before its twin, Voyager 1, on a trajectory that took longer to reach Jupiter and Saturn but enabled further encounters with Uranus and Neptune.[4] It is the only spacecraft to have ever visited either of the ice giants. -
First space shuttle launch
Exactly 20 years after the first manned space flight, when the orbiter Columbia, with two crew members, astronauts John W. Young, commander, and Robert L. Crippen, pilot, lifted off from Pad A, Launch Complex 39, at the Kennedy Space Cente -
Sally RIde
First American women in space -
Challenger disaster
It broke 73 seconds into its flight -
Galileo launched
Galileo was an unmanned spacecraft that studied the planet Jupiter and its moons, as well as several other Solar System bodies. Named after the astronomer Galileo Galilei, it consisted of an orbiter and entry probe. -
Hubble launched
Helped give a view of the universe. -
International space station construction finished
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Columbia diaster
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First launch of space ship one
The SpaceShipOne is a suborbital air-launched spaceplane that completed the first manned private spaceflight in 2004 -
New horizions launched
NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida aboard a fast-moving Atlas V rocket. As it headed for a distant rendezvous with the mysterious planet Pluto almost a decade from now. -
New horizon reaches pluto
New Horizons launched on Jan. 19, 2006; it swung past Jupiter for a gravity boost and scientific studies in February 2007, and conducted a six-month-long reconnaissance flyby study of Pluto and its moons in summer 2015, culminating with Pluto closest approach on July 14, 2015 -
First tourist in space
Dennis Tito -
Last space shuttle launch
It used the orbiter Atlantis and hardware originally processed for the STS-335 contingency mission, which was not flown. -
Curiosity Mars Landing
Curiosity is a car-sized robotic rover exploring Gale Crater on Mars as part of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission -
John Glenn
First man to circle the earth -
Apollo 8 mission
Took astronauts farther than anyone had gone before and showed humanity just how small and special our planet is. -
Apollo 13
An explosion in one of the oxygen tanks crippled the spacecraft during flight and the crew were forced to orbit the moon and return to the earth wihtiut landing. -
First Chinease space walk
Zhai Zhigang
