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First American woman in space
Sally ride -
Sputnik 1
The Sputnik 1 spacecraft was the first artificial satellite successfully placed in orbit around the Earth -
First man in space
Yuri Gagarin -
First American in space
Alan Shepard -
First man to circle the earth
John Glenn -
first space walk
A cosmonaut remembers the exhilaration-and terror-of his first space mission. In March 1965, at the age of 30, Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov made the first spacewalk in history, beating out American rival Ed White on Gemini 4 by almost three months. -
Apollo 1 mission
Fire struck inside killing three astronauts -
Apollo 8 mission
it reached the moon and made it back safely -
Apollo 13
one of the oxygen tanks exploded,and crippled the space flight -
Apollo 17
it carried the only trained geologists,t walk the lunar surface -
Mariner ten launched
Mariner 10 was an American robotic space probe launched by NASA -
voyage two launched
Voyager 2 launched on August 20, 1977, from Cape Canaveral, Florida aboard a Titan-Centaur rocket. -
First space shuttle launch
April 1981, exactly 20 years after the first manned space flight, when the orbiter Columbia, with two crew members, astronauts John W. Young, commander, and Robert L. Crippen, -
Challenger disaster
it took the lives of all seven men and women aboard -
Galileo launched
The Galileo mission consists of two spacecrafts -
Purpose of the Hubble launch
expand the frontiers of the visible universe -
First tourist in space
Dennis Tito, he is the world's first orbital space tourist -
columbia disaster
broke up as it returned to Earth, killing the seven astronauts on board. -
First Launch of Space Ship One
an experimental air-launched rocket-powered aircraft -
New horizions launch, prpous
Most of the post-Jupiter voyage was spent in hibernation mode to preserve on-board systems, except for brief annual checkouts. -
New Horizions reach pluto
New Horizons launched on Jan. 19, 2006; it swung past Jupiter for a gravity boost and scientific studies in February 2007, and conducted a six-month-long reconnaissance flyby study of Pluto and its moons in summer 2015, culminating with Pluto closest approach on July 14, 2015. -
First Chinese Space Walk
Chinese Astronauts Complete First Spacewalk -
International space station construction finished
a space station, or a habitable artificial satellite, in low Earth orbit. -
Last space shuttle launch
t used the orbiter Atlantis and hardware originally processed for the STS-335 contingency mission -
Curiosity Mars Landing
landed on Aeolis Palus
