Aerospace timeline By RyG99 1957 First creature in space 1957 First Satellite in Space 1957 first US satellite 1959 First woman in space 1959 First creatures return from space 1961 First Man in Space 1965 First pictures of Mars 1965 First space walk 1965 first unmanned spacecraft on moon & Venus 1967 Soviet spacecraft first to orbit moon 1969 Neil Armstrong walks on moon 1970 First space station 1971 First space station 1971 US orbits Mars 1972 Russians land on Mars (unmanned) 1973 launch of Skylab I 1976 first U.S. spacecraft to land on mars (unmanned) 1977 first spacecraft to fly by Jupiter and Saturn. 1981 first Space shuttle takes off 1985 only spacecraft to study all four of the solar system's outer planets at close range. 1989 only human-made object to have flown to neptune 1990 Launch of the Hubble Space Telescope 1995 Discovery of extrasolar planets 1997 International Space Station 2004 Flight of the First Private Spacecraft 2012 Mars rover landing
