Space Exploration

Sputnik Launched

Oct 4, 1957

The Russians Launched the Sputnik 1 into space. It was the first artificial satellite.

NASA

Jul 29, 1958

The NASA is established in the U.S. It replaces the NAC on areonots.

Luna 3

Oct 4, 1959

The Luna 3 photographed 70% percent of the far side of the moon.

FriendShip 7

Feb 20, 1962

FriendShip 7 product mercury contains John H and Glen, Jr. and orbits the earth 3 times.

Gemini 3

Mar 23, 1965

Gemini 3 was the first manned mission in NASA's Gemini program, the second American manned space program. Astronauts Gus Grissom and John Young flew three low Earth orbits.

Soviet Venera

Mar 1, 1966

Venera 3 was a Venera program space probe that was built and launched by the Soviet Union to explore the surface of Venus. It was launched on 16 November 1965 at 04:19 UTC from Baikonur, Kazakhstan, USSR.

Lunar Orbiter

Aug 14, 1966

The Lunar Orbiter program was a series of five unmanned lunar orbiter missions launched by the United States from 1966 through 1967.

Moon Landing

Jul 20, 1969

Neil Armstrong and Edwin Adrian make a “small step for man and a large step for mankind.”

Mariner 6

Jul 31, 1969

As part of NASA's wider Mariner program, Mariner 6 and Mariner 7 completed the first dual mission to Mars in 1969. Mariner 6 was launched from Launch Complex 36B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.

Skylab

May 14, 1973

Skylab was the United States' only space station, orbiting Earth from 1973 to 1979, when it fell back to Earth amid huge worldwide media attention.

Challenger

Jan 28, 1986

Challenger explodes 73 seconda after launch. Grounding the fleet flight for 2 years.

Radiation

Mar 15, 2018

Four years later, their newest research shows current conditions exceed their predictions by about 10 percent, showing the radiation environment is worsening even more than expected.