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the Soviet two-stage R-7 carries Sputnik (later referred to as Sputnik 1), the first artificial satellite into orbit.
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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.
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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.
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Explorer 2 is launched from a Jupiter-C Rocket but fails to reach Orbit
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It became the first solar powered satellite.
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Luna 1, first man-made satellite to orbit the moon, is launched by the U.S.S.R.
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Scott Crossfield made the first unpowered glide flight in the joint X-15 hypersonic research program.
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The Explorer 6 took the first photograph of Earth from orbit.
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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.
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Yuri A. Gagarin was the first man in space
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On this date, John F Kennedy announced his intention of having the United States be the first nation to land people on the moon.
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John Glenn was the first American to orbit Earth.
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July 31, 1964 - U.S. Ranger 7 relays the first close-range photographs of the Moon.
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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.
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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.
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Apollo 8 was the first manned space flight to orbit another celestial object.
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was the first man to orbit the moon
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Apollo 11, july 16,1969 by Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Micheal collins.
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Apollo 11, July 16, 1969 by Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins.
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The Apollo 11 space flight landed the first humans on Earth's Moon on July 20, 1969.
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the first american space station is launched
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develop reusable vehicles for space exploration
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The American Mariner 10 was launched during the first dual-planet mission. It successfully took pictures of Venus and Mercury.
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First flight for the space shuttle Enterprise.
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After years of testing Columbia was navigated by John Young and Robert Crippted, into space
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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.
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The first Lunar Eclipse was on 425 October 9, BCE.
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The space shuttle Challenger breaks apart, killing the crew of 7
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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.
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The Galileo unmanned orbiter was launched by "Atlantis" during the STS-34 mission.
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Space Shuttle Discovery launches on STS-31, deploying the Edwin P. Hubble Space Telescope
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Salyut 7 from orbit and burns up over Argentina.
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On it's way to the Sun, The Ulysses Spacecraft flew around Jupiter.
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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.
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Mae Jemison was the first African American woman to go up into space.
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Sergei Krikalev is the first Russian cosmonaut on a shuttle mission in the U.S.A.
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A large astroid named XM1 passes within 65,000 miles from Earth
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Eileen M. Collins becomes the first woman to fly a Space Chuttle on mission STS-63.
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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.
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The new Mars Global Surveyor was launched on November 7, 1996, and was in a Martian orbit mapping Mars until 1998.
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Longest shuttle flight in history-lasted 17 days.
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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.
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John Glenn is the first American in the shuttle, "Discovery" to orbit planet Earth. He is known as the oldest person to enter space.
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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.
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The Expedition One crew is launched on a Soyuz transport to become the first crew of the ISS.
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Galileo completes another flyby of Jupiter's moon Io, passing only 181 km from Io's south polar region.
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Space Shuttle Endeavour is launched carrying the Raffaello logistics module back to the ISS with new supplies.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
