curiosity cats mission 1:

By jorginahlouise
  • Start of the U.S.- soviet Space Race

    Start of the U.S.- soviet Space Race

  • nasa is created

    nasa is created

  • The USSR Luna 2 is launched

    The USSR Luna 2 is launched

    Luna 2 was the first space craft to touch down on the moon.
  • First man in space

    First man in space

    aboard the spacecraft Vostok 1, Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin becomes the first human being to travel into space.
  • Mercury red stone 3 mission

    Mercury red stone 3 mission

    Mercury red stone 3 was the first United States human spaceflight, and was piloted by astronaut Alan Shepard.
  • john glenn became the first American to orbit Earth

    john glenn became the first American to orbit Earth

  • Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov left his spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes making the first spacewalk in history.

    Cosmonaut Alexei Leonov left his spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes making the first spacewalk in history.

  • man walks on the moon

    man walks on the moon

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cwZb2mqId0A
  • pioneer 10

    pioneer 10

    an American space probe that completed the first mission to the planet Jupiter. Then Pioneer 10 became the first spacecraft to achieve escape velocity from the Solar System.
  • columbia the first flight of the Space Shuttle program

    columbia the first flight of the Space Shuttle program

    Space Shuttle Columbia was the first space-rated orbiter in NASA's Space Shuttle fleet. It launched for the first time on mission STS-1 (space transportation system 1)
  • NEAR-shoemaker

    NEAR-shoemaker

    The NEAR robotics space probe was the first probe was the first to orbit and land on an asteroid (shoemaker- asteroid named in honor of planetary scientist Gene Shoemaker)
  • International Space Station Launched

    International Space Station Launched

  • we lose communication with pioneer 10

    we lose communication with pioneer 10

    pioneer 10 was 12 billion km (7456454306.848 mi) from earth
  • Columbia explodes returning to earth

    Columbia explodes returning to earth

    Over 22 years of service it completed 27 missions before disintegrating during re-entry near the end of its 28th mission, STS-107, resulting in the deaths of all seven crew members.
  • first Chinese astronaut in space

    first Chinese astronaut in space

    Yang Liwei was the first Chinese astronaut in space. He was in space for a total of 21 hours 22 minuets and 45 seconds
  • nasa celebrates 50 years of space exploration

    nasa celebrates 50 years of space exploration

  • The end of nasa's space shuttle program

    The end of nasa's space shuttle program

  • Curiosity mars rover launch

    Curiosity mars rover launch

  • independence plaza opens at space canter houston

    independence plaza opens at space canter houston

    “This is our full-scale shuttle replica, that is mounted on top of the original and authentic shuttle-carrier aircraft,” Space Center Director of Communications Gayden Cooper says. “Houston will have the only exhibit like this in the world.”