Exploring Astronauts through Time

Creation of NASA

Jul 29, 1958

Created, T., & created, N. (2017). NASA created - Jul 29, 1958 - HISTORY.com. HISTORY.com. Retrieved from http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/nasa-created

First Person in Space

Apr 12, 1961

Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin
BBC - Solar System - Yuri Gagarin - first man in space - facts, video, pictures & news. (2017). Bbc.co.uk. Retrieved from http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/space/solarsystem/astronauts/yuri_gagarin

First Woman in Space

Jun 16, 1963

Valentina Tereshkova
Valentina Tereshkova: First Woman in Space. (2017). Space.com. Retrieved from http://www.space.com/21571-valentina-tereshkova.html

First Human on the Moon

Jul 20, 1969

Neil Armstrong
NASA - The First Person on the Moon. (2017). Nasa.gov. Retrieved from https://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/k-4/stories/first-person-on-moon.html

First Space Station in Orbit

Apr 19, 1971

Soviet's Salyut 1
April 19, 1971: Soviets Put First Space Station Into Orbit. (2017). Wired.com. Retrieved from https://www.wired.com/2011/04/0419soviets-launch-first-space-station/

The Last Person to walk on the Moon

Dec 1, 1972

Eugene Cernan
Eugene Cernan, last man to walk on the moon, dead at 82. (2017). Fox News. Retrieved from http://www.foxnews.com/science/2017/01/16/eugene-cernan-last-man-to-walk-on-moon-dead-at-82.html

First Space Shuttle Launch

Apr 12, 1981

The Columbia
First Shuttle Launch. (2017). NASA. Retrieved from https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_2488.html

First American Woman in Space

Jun 18, 1983

Sally Ride
First American Woman in Space. (2017). NASA. Retrieved from https://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_2533.html

First Crew Arrived on Present Day's Space Station

Nov 2, 2000

What Is the International Space Station?. (2017). NASA. Retrieved 12 April 2017, from https://www.nasa.gov/audience/forstudents/k-4/stories/nasa-knows/what-is-the-iss-k4.html

First Stage Booster Launched and Landed on the Drone Ship

May 22, 2016

SpaceX's Dragon spacecraft atop rocket Falcon 9.
Watch SpaceX Launch Its First Truly Reusable Rocket. (2017). Wired.com. Retrieved from https://www.wired.com/2017/03/watch-spacex-launch-first-truly-reusable-rocket/