space exploration timeline

By jo18613

  • space exploration time line

    It was when Sputnik 1 was the first thing that orbit the earth until 1/4/1958

  • Explorer one

    Explorer 1, the first U.S. satellite in orbit, lifts off at Cape Canaveral using a modified ABMA-JPL Jupiter-C rocket. It carries a scientific experiment of James A. Van Allen, and discovers the Earth's radiation belt.

  • Explorer # 2

    Explorer 2 is launched by a Jupiter-C rocket, and fails to reach orbit.

  • Sputnik 3

    Sputnik 3 is launched by the U.S.S.R.

  • sputnick 2

    sputnick 2 had a dog named lakia for 7 days in its orbit until April 13 1958

  • Luna 2

    Luna 2 is launched, impacting on the moon on September 13 carrying a copy of the Soviet coat of arms, and becoming the first man-made object to hit the moon

  • Luna 3

    Luna 3 translunar satellite is launched, orbiting the moon and photographing 70 percent of the far side of the moon.

  • space walk

    The first space walk is made from Soviet Voskhod 2 by Cosmonaut Alexei A. Leonov. Duration is 12 minutes long.

  • Edward White 2

    Edward White II makes the first U.S. space walk from Gemini 4. Duration is 22 minutes.

  • Soviet Venus 3 Launched

    Soviet Venus 3 is launched, becoming the first craft to impact Venus on March 1, 1966.

  • Soviet Luna 9

    Soviet Luna 9
    Soviet Luna 9 is the first spacecraft to soft-land on the moon

  • U.S. Lunar

    U.S. Lunar Orbiter 1 enters moon orbit, and takes the first picture of the Earth from the distance of the moon.

  • Neil Armstrong Apollo 11

    Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin, Jr. make the first manned soft landing on the Moon, and the first moonwalk, using Apollo 11.

  • Soviet Venera 3

    Soviet Venera 3 impacts on Venus, the first spacecraft to reach another planet. It fails to return data