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time line of space ships

By konner.m

  • first man made object to reach space

    first man made object to reach space
    The WAC-Corporal launched on Oct. 11, 1945. The WAC-Corporal liquid-fuel-sounding rocket was the first successful rocket built by the United States. Developed in 1944 at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, it could lift 25 pounds of instruments to 20 miles. The motor used nitric acid and aniline to produce 1,500 pounds of thrust.

  • the first manned flight in to space

    the first manned flight in to space
    On April 12, 1961, the USSR opened the era of crewed spaceflight, with the flight of the first cosmonaut (Russian name for space travelers), Yuri Gagarin. Gagarin's flight, part of the Soviet Vostok space exploration program, took 108 minutes and consisted of a single orbit of the Earth.

  • Oso 1

    Oso 1
    The first in a series of 8 successfully launched Orbiting Solar Observatories (OSO 1) was launched on 7 March 1962. The OSO 1 was the first satellite to have pointed instruments and onboard tape recorders for data storage. ... The spacecraft provided real-time data until May 1964, when the power cells failed.

  • luna 10

    luna 10
    Luna 10 was a 1966 Soviet lunar robotic spacecraft mission in the Luna program. It was the first artificial satellite to go around the Moon. It orbited for 56 days, completing 460 lunar orbits during that time it provided over 200 data transmissions.

  • apollo 11

    apollo 11
    Apollo 11 (July 16–24, 1969) was the spaceflight that first landed humans on the Moon. Commander Neil Armstrong and lunar module pilot Buzz Aldrin formed the American crew that landed the Apollo Lunar Module Eagle on July 20, 1969, at 20:17 UTC.

  • luna 17

    luna 17
    The Luna 17 spacecraft carried Lunokhod 1 rover to the Moon in 1970. Lunokhod 1 was the first remote-controlled robot "rover" to freely move across the surface of an astronomical object beyond the Earth. It was also the first wheeled craft on another celestial body.

  • Salyut 1

    Salyut 1
    salyut was the world's first space station launched into low Earth orbit by the Soviet Union on April 19, 1971. The Salyut program followed this with five more successful launches of seven more stations.

  • Pathfinder

    Pathfinder
    Mars Pathfinder was launched December 4, 1996, and landed on Mars' Ares Vallis on July 4, 1997. It was designed as a technology demonstration of a new way to deliver an instrumented lander and the first-ever robotic rover to the surface of the red planet.

  • starship

    starship
    Starship is a stainless-steel fully reusable rocket being developed and constructed by SpaceX, an American aerospace manufacturer, launch service provider, and communications corporation. This rocket can be fully D3 printed and will be able to land itself. The first orbital launch is set for January 2022.