History of Space Travel

By tops2015

  • Sputnik is launched by Soviet Union

  • U.S. launches first satellite into orbit

  • NASA is formed

  • First man, cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin, is launched into space

  • Alan Shepard is the first American in space

  • John Glenn is the first American to orbit the Earth

  • Valentina Tereshkova was first woman in space

  • First spacewalk by Russian Alexey Leonov

  • Fire inside command module during a launch pad practice of the Apollo I mission takes lives of three astronauts

  • Neil Armstrong is the first person to set foot on the moon

  • Apollo 11 is the first manned landing on the moon

  • Apollo 13 is crippled by explosion, all men returned safely; journey to moon is cancelled

  • Apollo 17 is the last American moon landing

  • Space shuttle Columbia's first launch on mission STS-1

  • Space shuttle Challenger's first launch on mission STS-6

  • Sally Ride becomes first American woman in space

  • Space shuttle Discovery's first launch on mission 41-D

  • Marc Garneau is the first Canadian man in space on mission STS-41-G

  • Space shuttle Atlantis' first launch on mission 51-J

  • Challenger explodes minutes after takeoff, killing seven crew members

  • Discovery launches carrying the Hubble Space Telescope

  • Roberta Bondar is the first Canadian woman in space on mission STS-42

  • Space shuttle Endeavour is launched on mission STS-49

  • Space shuttle Columbia breaks apart during reentry, killing all seven members of the crew

  • Last landing of Discovery on mission STS-133

  • Landing of Endeavour's last mission STS-134

  • Final space shuttle landing by Atlantis STS-135

    End of Space Transportation System.