Timeline: 15 Space Firsts | Timetoast

May 16, 1926

First Liquid Rocket Launch
Oct 3, 1942

First Suborbital Flight
Nov 3, 1957

First Live Animal in Space
Oct 1, 1958

NASA is Born
Apr 12, 1961

First Man in Space
May 5, 1961

First American in Space
Jan 27, 1967

First U.S. space Tragedy
Jul 30, 1971

First Lunar Rover Mission
May 14, 1973

First U.S. Space Station
Apr 24, 1990

Hubble Space Telescope is Launched
Jul 4, 1997

Mars Pathfinder Lands on Mars
Oct 4, 1997

First Artificial Satellite
Feb 12, 2001

First Landing on an asteroid
Jul 4, 2005

First Impact With a Comet
Oct 14, 2014

First skydive jump to break the sound barrier