Events of Space Exploration

1609-1957

Period: Jan 1, 1609 to Dec 31, 1957

Galileo Discovers moons

Jan 1, 1610

1610- The first spotting of the moon through a telescope by Galileo Galilei

Uranus Discovered

Jan 1, 1781

William Herschel discovered the planet Uranus

Ceres Discovered

Jan 1, 1801

Guiseppe Piazzi discoveres Ceres

Galle Discovers Neptune

Jan 1, 1846

Galle Observes and discovers Neptune

Sputnuk 1

Oct 4, 1957

Soviet Union launches Sputnik 1.- October 4th

1958-1980

Period: Jan 1, 1958 to Dec 31, 1980

First Successful American Satellite

Jan 31, 1958

Luna 2

Sep 14, 1959

first spacecraft to reach the surface of the Moon

First in Space

Apr 12, 1961

Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space.

First Woman in space

Jan 1, 1963

Valentina Tereshkova first woman in space

First Landing on moon

Jul 20, 1969

Apollo 11 lands on moon.

1981-Present Day

Period: Jan 1, 1981 to Nov 20, 2013

First Space Shuttle Launch

Apr 19, 1981

First Untethered Spacewalk

Feb 7, 1984

Astronaut Bruce McCandless made the first untethered spacewalk

Challenger Explosion

Jan 28, 1986

Hubble Telescope

Apr 25, 1990

Hubble Space Telescope Deployed
 

Pathfinder Probe

Jul 4, 1997

Pathfinder Probe Lands on Mars