Spaceflight History

By Spaceman9813

  • Sputnik Launch

  • First man in space (Yuri Gagarin)

  • First American man in space (Alan Shepard)

  • JFK's "We Choose" speech

  • First woman in space (Valentina Tereshkova)

  • first space walk (Aleksey Leonov)

  • Gemini 8 disaster

  • Apollo 1 fire

  • First manned Lunar orbit (Apollo 8)

  • Soviet Moon rocket explosion (N1-L3-FT1)

  • First man on the Moon (Neil Armstrong)

  • Apollo 13 Disaster

  • First space station (Salyut 1)

  • Soyuz 11 disaster

  • First US space station (Skylab)

  • First international space mission (ASTP)

  • First Shuttle Launch (STS-1)

  • First US woman in space (Sally Ride)

  • Challenger disaster (STS-51L)

  • First and only Buran Launch (Soviet Space plane)

  • Hubble space telescope put in orbit

  • First ISS module is launched (Zarya)

  • SpaceX founding

  • Columbia disaster (STS-107)

  • First Falcon booster recovory

  • Artemis announcement date

  • Artemis 1

  • ISS completion

  • First Starship launch (IFT-1)