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Event Date:	Event Title:	Event Description:
10/04/1957	Sputnik Arrives in Space	the Soviet two-stage R-7 carries Sputnik (later referred to as Sputnik 1), the first artificial satellite into orbit.
10/04/1957	1957 sputnik I	The first man-made object to leave the earth’s atmosphere is a satellite called ‘Sputnik I’. Sputnik was made by the Russians and communicated with them via radio signals.
01/02/1958	Luna 1 meets the moon	The first probe to come close to the moon was Luna 1, launched by the Soviet Union, she passes within about 3,700 miles of the moon and went into orbit around the sun.
01/31/1958	American satellite Explorer 1, was first successful satellite launched.
03/05/1958	Explorer 2	Explorer 2 is launched from a Jupiter-C Rocket but fails to reach Orbit
03/17/1958	Vanguard 1 was Launched	It became the first solar powered satellite.
01/02/1959	Luna 1, first man-made satellite to orbit the moon, is launched by the U.S.S.R.	Luna 1, first man-made satellite to orbit the moon, is launched by the U.S.S.R.
03/24/1959	NASA announced that Wallops Station had made over 3,300 rocket firings since 1945.
05/06/1959	NASA created a committee to study problems of long-range lunar exploration to be headed by Dr. Robert Jastrow.
06/08/1959	June 8 1959 The first unpowered glide flight was flown	Scott Crossfield made the first unpowered glide flight in the joint X-15 hypersonic research program.
08/07/1959	First photograph of Earth from orbit	The Explorer 6 took the first photograph of Earth from orbit.
09/12/1959	First lunar landing	September 12, 1959 - Luna 2 is launched, impacting on the moon on September 13 carrying a copy of the Soviet coat of arms, and becoming the first man-made object to hit the moon.
04/01/1960	The very first successful weather satellite was launched by US
04/12/1961	First man in space	Yuri A. Gagarin was the first man in space
05/25/1961	Kennedy's Speech	On this date, John F Kennedy announced his intention of having the United States be the first nation to land people on the moon.
02/20/1962	First American to orbit Earth	John Glenn was the first American to orbit Earth.
07/31/1964	July 31, 1964 - U.S. Ranger 7 relays the first close-range photographs of the Moon.	July 31, 1964 - U.S. Ranger 7 relays the first close-range photographs of the Moon.
10/12/1964	Voskhod Mission	Voskhod was the first space capsul that held more than one person. The whole time spent in orbit was 24 hours. The list of names of people who went up are: Cosmonauts Vladimir M. Komarov, Konstantin P. Feoktistov, and Boris B. Yegorov.
03/23/1965	Gemini 3	Gemini 3 was actually the first Gemini mission that was piloted. Two astronauts known as Grissom and John Young altered the space shuttles path by using maneuvering rockets.
11/09/1967	Apollo 4 launched
01/22/1968	Apollo 5 lifts off
12/21/1968	Apollo 8 Launched	Apollo 8 was the first manned space flight to orbit another celestial object.
01/05/1969	John Glenn	was the first man to orbit the moon
07/16/1969	first trip to the moon	Apollo 11, july 16,1969 by Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Micheal collins.
07/16/1969	When was the first trip to the moon	Apollo 11, July 16, 1969 by Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins.
07/20/1969	Apollo 11	The Apollo 11 space flight landed the first humans on Earth's Moon on July 20, 1969.
07/24/1969	Apollo 11 lands back on Earth.
01/05/1970	SKy lab	the first american space station is launched
01/05/1972	Nixon authorized the space shuttle program	develop reusable vehicles for space exploration
01/05/1972	The shuttle program was formally launched
11/03/1973	Mariner 10 took pics of Venus and Mercury	The American Mariner 10 was launched during the first dual-planet mission. It successfully took pictures of Venus and Mercury.
01/04/1976	in 1976 enterprise was the first space shuttle made
07/20/1976	First photos and soil samples from the surface of Mars
02/15/1977	First flight for the space shuttle Enterprise.	First flight for the space shuttle Enterprise.
08/30/1977	Voyager 1 and 2 leave to go to jupiter and later saturn
04/12/1981	First shuttle to reach orbit	After years of testing Columbia was navigated by John Young and Robert Crippted, into space
04/12/1981	The maiden flight of Space Shuttle Columbia
09/05/1982	The NRO and NASA	Between 1982 and 1992, NASA launched 11 shuttle flights with classified payloads, honoring a deal that dated to 1969, when the National Reconnaissance Office—an organization so secret its name could not be published at the time—requested certain changes to the design of NASA’s new space transportation system. The NRO built and operated large, expensive reconnaissance satellites, and it wanted a bigger shuttle cargo bay than NASA had planned.
10/09/1982	first lunar eclipse	The first Lunar Eclipse was on 425 October 9, BCE.
06/18/1983	Challenger launches with Sally Ride, first American woman in space.
10/03/1985	The space shuttle "Atlantis" takes off on its very first mission.
01/28/1986	Challenger Disaster	The space shuttle Challenger breaks apart, killing the crew of 7
12/02/1988	The mission of STS-27	The mission of STS-27 had been to deploy the first in a series of new spy satellites that used radar to observe ground targets, in any kind of weather, day or night. But shortly after the astronauts released the spacecraft, called ONYX, from the shuttle’s cargo bay, on December 2, 1988, one of its antenna dishes had failed to open. Without intervention by the crew, the billion-dollar satellite would become a hunk of space junk. As it turned out, they succeeded in grabbing, fixing,and releasing.
10/18/1989	Galileo Orbiter Launched.	The Galileo unmanned orbiter was launched by "Atlantis" during the STS-34 mission.
04/24/1990	Discovery deploys the Hubble telescope.
04/24/1990	Hubble Space Telescope Deployed	Space Shuttle Discovery launches on STS-31, deploying the Edwin P. Hubble Space Telescope
02/07/1991	Salyut 7	Salyut 7 from orbit and burns up over Argentina.
02/08/1992	Ulysses Flew near Jupiter on it's trip to the Sun	On it's way to the Sun, The Ulysses Spacecraft flew around Jupiter.
05/02/1992	Endeavour's First Mission	Space Shuttle Endeavour lifts off on its first mission, repairing the Intelsat VI satellite. Crew: Daniel C. Brandenstein, Kevin P. Chilton, Richard J. Hieb, Bruce E. Melnick, Pierre J. Thout, Kathryn C. Thornton, and Thomas D. Akers.
09/12/1992	First African American women in space.	Mae Jemison was the first African American woman to go up into space.
02/03/1994	First Russian on U.S. Shuttle Duty	Sergei Krikalev is the first Russian cosmonaut on a shuttle mission in the U.S.A.
12/09/1994	Asteroid XM1	A large astroid named XM1 passes within 65,000 miles from Earth
02/06/1995	First woman to pilot a space shuttle	Eileen M. Collins becomes the first woman to fly a Space Chuttle on mission STS-63.
12/07/1995	Galileo orbiter reaches Jupiter.
09/26/1996	Atlantis Touch-Down and Longest Female Atsronaut	Space Shuttle Atlantis touches down after mission STS-79. It brings back Shannon Lucid, who becomes the longest US astronaut in space, and the longest female astronaut in space.
11/07/1996	Nasa's new spacecraft Mapped Mars for 2 years in space.	The new Mars Global Surveyor was launched on November 7, 1996, and was in a Martian orbit mapping Mars until 1998.
11/19/1996	Columbia Longest shuttle flight in history-lasted 17 days.	Longest shuttle flight in history-lasted 17 days.
07/04/1997	Pathfinder on Mars!!	July 4, 1997 - Mars Pathfinder becomes the first probe to successfully land on Mars since Viking 2 in 1976. It is also the first planetary probe to include a separate roving robot probe (Sojourner) since the Soviet Union's Luna 21 in 1973.
10/29/1998	America's First Person to Orbit Earth	John Glenn is the first American in the shuttle, "Discovery" to orbit planet Earth. He is known as the oldest person to enter space.
01/30/1999	Stardust and the Comet	In 1999, NASA launched a probe called Stardust to visit Comet Wild 2. In 2004, Stardust passed near the comet and gathered samples from the cloud of dust and gas surrounding the comet apos's nucleus. Stardust was scheduled to return the samples to Earth in 2006.
10/31/2000	First crew of the ISS	The Expedition One crew is launched on a Soyuz transport to become the first crew of the ISS.
02/12/2001	NEAR Shoemaker Probe Landed on asteroid 433 Eros
04/12/2001	The first space shuttle was launched
10/16/2001	October 16, 2001	Galileo completes another flyby of Jupiter's moon Io, passing only 181 km from Io's south polar region.
12/05/2001	December 5, 2001	Space Shuttle Endeavour is launched carrying the Raffaello logistics module back to the ISS with new supplies.
02/01/2003	Colombia Disaster	The Colombia loses a piece of insulation, which lodges in the external tank, causing a failure of the thermal protection system. The shuttle burns, killing the crew inside.
10/15/2003	2003 Yang Liwei	After Russia and the USA, China launched their first manned spacecraft into orbit, Shenzhou V departed from the Gobi desert and had only one astronaut onboard,Yang Liwei, making him the first chinese astronaut.
01/03/2004	Spirit rover land in Mars	The spirit rover lands in mars, to a location known as the Gusev crater. Designed only to last three months, the rover has prove to be rough and the mission is continued for several years.
11/16/2004	History Record: the X-43A flew 10 times the speed of sound.	On November 16th 2004, Nasa's X-43A airplane used innovative scramjet technology to fly at ten times the speed of sound, setting a world's record for air-breathing aircraft.
Timespan Dates:	Timespan Title:	Timespan Description:
01/01/1950 to 01/01/1960	1950