Space Exploration Timeline

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  • NASA is founded

  • Yuri Gargarin is the first person sent into space

  • Alan Shepard becomes the first American in space

  • John Glenn becomes the first American to orbit Earth

  • Valentina Tareshkova is the first woman in space

  • Apollo 11 mission successfully reaches the moon

  • Skylab is launched

  • Voyager 2 is launched

  • Guion Bluford goes into space

  • Rakesh Sharma goes into space as part of Soyuz mission

  • Mir Space station is launched into orbit

  • Hubble Space Telescope launched

  • International Space Station launched

  • Yang Liwei is the first Chinese person in space

  • European Space Agency launches Rosetta space rover

  • Pluto is downgraded to a dwarf planet from a planet

  • Chang’e 3 moon rover is launched

  • Elon Musk launched a Tesla car into space to prove that he could do it

  • Parker Solar Probe launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla.

  • Beresheet moon lander is launched

  • Martian Rover Perseverance makes it to Mars and begins active study of the planet

  • Hope orbiter of the United Arab Emirates is LAUNCHED into space toward Mars

  • Tiangong space station launched

  • James Webb Telescope is launched into space

  • India plans to send manned mission into space