Spacecrafts

By SamEE

  • Goddard establishes that sending rockets to the moon is possible.

    Goddard establishes that it is possible to send a rocket to the Moon.Robert Goddard experiments with reaction propulsion in a vacuum and establishes that it is possible to send a rocket to the Moon.

  • WAC Corporal

    It was the first (US designed) rocket that reached the edge of space.

  • Succesful launch of a V-2 rocket

    The first pictures of the Earth were taken from an altitude of 105 km.

  • The first spacecraft launched, Sputnik 1

    The first spacecraft, the Soviet Union's Sputnik 1, was launched on October 4, 1957; it weighed 83.6 kg (184 pounds)

  • Sputnik 2

    First animal (a dog named Laika) sent to the orbit.

  • The U.S launches the first sattelite, Explorer 1

    The United States launches its first satellite, the 30.8-pound Explorer 1

  • Explorer 6

    First photograph of Earth taken from the orbit (by NASA).

  • First Manned Spacecraft, Vostok 1

    (April 12, 1961), by the first manned spacecraft, Vostok 1, which carried the Soviet cosmonaut Yury Gagarin.

  • Vostok 6

    First woman in space (Valentina Tereshkova).

  • Luna 10

    First artificial satellite around the Moon.

  • Apollo 8

    First piloted orbital mission of Moon (by NASA).

  • Apollo 11

    First human on the Moon and first space launch from a celestial body (by NASA) - Commander Neil Armstrong and Pilot Buzz Aldrin.

  • Salyut 1

    First space station.

  • Pioneer 10

    The first human-made object that had been sent on escape trajectory away from the Sun (by NASA).

  • Voyager 1

    First photograph of the whole Solar System (by NASA).

  • Venera 13

    First Venus soil samples and sound recording of another world.

  • STS-41-B

    The first untethered spacewalk, Bruce McCandless II (by NASA).

  • NEAR Shoemaker

    First orbiting and landing of an asteroid (433 Eros) – by NASA.

  • Genesis

    First sample return beyond lunar orbit (solar wind)- by NASA.

  • Voyager 1 becomes the first man made object to travel into interstellar space

    NASA's Voyager 1 spacecraft officially is the first human-made object to venture into interstellar space. The 36-year-old probe is about 12 billion miles (19 billion kilometers) from our sun.

  • Rosetta

    First man-made probe to make a planned and soft landing on a comet.