Space Timeline

  • Sputnik

    Sputnik
    the first man - made Satellite
  • Freedom 7

    Freedom 7
    Astronaut Alan Shepard crawled into the the cramped Mercury capsule, "Freedom 7", at launch Complex 5 at Florida's Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
  • Centaur 2

    Centaur 2
    This Atlas Centaur 2 launch vehicle was used for a performance and structural integrity test. It was instrumented with 2000 pounds of sensors, equipment, and telemetry.
  • Surveyor Dynamic Model

    Surveyor Dynamic Model
    Atlas Centaur 6 carried a Surveyor satellite dynamic model. It conducted a direct-ascent test for guidance evaluation.
  • Lunar Orbiter

    Lunar Orbiter
    MASA launched five lunar orbiter missions in 1966 through 1967 to map the Lunar surface before the Apollo landings. All five missions were successful, and 99 percent of the Moon was photographed. One of the images, taken on Aug. 23, 1966, was the first picture of the Moon.
  • HEOS 1

    HEOS 1
    HEOS 1 was an earth-orbiting, spin-stabilized satellite that was launched by ESA.
  • Apollo 11

    Apollo 11
    This was a spaceflight thet landed the first humans on the Moon.
  • Apollo 16

    Apollo 16
    Apollo 16 was the fifth mission in which humans walked on the lunar surface and returned to Earth. On 21 April 1972 two astronauts (Apollo 16 Commander John W. Young and LM pilot Charles M. Duke, Jr.) landed in the Descartes region of the Moon
  • Nimbus 5

    Nimbus 5
    The Nimbus 5 research - and - development satellite was designed to serve as a stabilized, earth - orinted platform for the testing of advanced meteorological senor system and collecting meteorological and feological data on the global scale.
  • STS - 4

    Crew performed medical experiments on themselves for two student projects, operated remote manipulator arm to swing IECM around orbiter, and took photos of lightning activity in Earth's atmosphere.
  • STS - 61A

    STS - 61A
    STS - 61A was the first Hubble Space Telescope servicing mission.
  • STS - 73

    The crew members where split up into two teams and did research on Fluid physics, materials science, biotchology, combustion science, and commerical space processing.
  • Gravity Probe B

    NASA's Gravity Probe B mission has confirmed two key predictions derived from Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity, which the spacecraft was designed to test.
  • Little Joe

    Little Joe was an unmanned United States spaceship. This was a flight testing for the Apollo.
  • Gravity Recovery and Interior Laboratory (GRIL)

    The GRIL's mission is to slove Moon mysterys.