Space Exploration Timeline

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  • Sputnik/Mercury/Gemini

    Sputnik was the first artificial orbiting satellite.

  • Pioneer Program

    Series of spacecraft that went to the Sun, Venus, Saturn, and Jupiter and had a total of 13 missions.

  • The Venera Space Program

    Sixteen different Venera missions and Venera 1 was the first spacecraft to fly past Venus.

  • Mariner 1

  • Viking Probes

    They were looking for life on Mars and seeing if people could possibly live there.

  • Voyager Launch

  • The Space Shuttle

    5 reusable space crafts that were launched 130 times and traveled over half a billion miles.

  • Challenger

  • Magellan Spacecraft

    Took never before seen pictures and mapped 84% of Venus.

  • Galileo Spacecraft

    It was the first spacecraft to orbit Jupiter and used the slingshot method to reach Jupiter.

  • Hubble Space Telescope

    Telescope used to discover new masses.

  • The NEAR Mission Spacecraft Launches

  • MIR

  • Mars Exploration Rover

    There were two exploration rovers that explored Mars.