Space Exploration Timeline

By JoanneHSecrets3

  • First Live Animal In Space.

    First Live Animal In Space.
    They launched a dog named Laika into space, on the Sputnik 2. Laika the dog lived eight days until all of the supplies ran out, such as the food, waste collection system, and biological sensors.

  • First Robotic Lunar Mission.

    First Robotic Lunar Mission.
    The Lunar 17 lands on the moon, with the first automatic robot, Lunokhod 1. It's driven by a five -man team on Earth, the craft travels ver the lunar surface for 11 days. During that 11 days it returns 20,000 TV images and 206 high-resolution panoramas.

  • Launch Of Hubble Space Telescope.

    Launch Of Hubble Space Telescope.
    The Space Shuttle discovery lifts off for mission STS-31, carrying the Edwin P. Hubble Space Telescope (HTS). The telescope is found to contain a seriously flawed primary mirror resulting in fuzzy images.

  • First Female Shuttle Pilot.

    First Female Shuttle Pilot.
    Eileen M. Collins becomes the first woman to fly a Space Shuttle on mission STS-63. During the mission, Shape Shuttle Discovery maneuvers to within 37 feet of Russian space station Mie,in perparation for a future shuttle Mir docking.

  • X PRIZE Competition Announced.

    X PRIZE Competition Announced.
    Underneath the famous arch in St. Louis, Missouri, the creation of the X PRIZE competition is officially announced to the world. X PRIZE offers 10 million dollars to the first person or team to safely launch a land a spacecraft capable of carrying three people to a suborbittal altitude of 100 kilometers (62.5 miles) and repeat the trip again within 2 weeks.

  • Shannon Lucid Returns from Mir.

    Shannon Lucid Returns from Mir.
    Space Shuttle Atlantis touches down bringing home U.S astronauts Shannon Lucid.

  • John Glenn Returns To Space.

    John Glenn Returns To Space.
    Space Shuttle Discovery begins mission STS-95, carrying verteran astronaut John H. Glenn. He was the first to orbit the Earth during the Mercury program.

  • First Langing On An Asteroid.

    First Langing On An Asteroid.
    The near Earth Arteroid Rendezvous spacecraft is successfully landed on the surface of the asteroid Eros.

  • 100th U.S Space Walk

    100th U.S Space Walk
    U.S astronauts Thomas Jones and Robert Curbeam Jr. make history as they perform the 100th space walk in the U.S space program.

  • First Landing On An Alien Moon.

    First Landing On An Alien Moon.
    After descending by parachute for 2 hours and 28 minutes, the Huygens probe lands on Saturn's largest moon, Titian. It was able to send images back to Earth showing flat littered wih small rocks.