-
First Space Flight
First ever unmanned space flight launched by the Soviets. Sigificant because it started space travel. -
First Living creature in space
A dog sent out to space by the USSR, Significant because we figured living creatures can survive in space -
Animals and plants returned back to earth
Animals and plants are lanuched into space and are returned back safely. Significant because it opened up the doors to human space explration. Stamp was made to comerate the mission. -
First person in space
Yuri Gagarin is sent out to space for a hour and forty eight minuets. The mission was called Vostok 1. Was sent into space by the Soviets. Significant because we figured humans can survive in space. -
Apollo Program
The start of the Apollo program. There was no flight until 1968 -
First day long flight
Gherman Titov goes to space for an entire day. Misson called Vostok 2 and sent out by the Soviets. Significant because people figuree out it is possible to live up in space for a long period of time. -
First women in Space
Valentina Tereshkova became the first women to go to space on Vostok 6. Significant because women now have sent out to space on mostly every mission. Also helping women get rights -
Man on moon
Neil armstrong becomes the first man to step foot on the moon. Significant because we finally steped foot on another natraul celestial body -
Apollo 13
A succesful failure mission Apollo 13 was launched. On april 14th the oxygen tanks erupted and started to leak causing them to have a Main A and B undervolt. The crew had to transfer to the Luner model used as lifeboat to return. The -
First rover on the moon
For Apollo 15, a rover was also sent out to help the astronuts move around the moon. It was like the first space go-kart. -
First photos of another planet from surface
A probe is sent out to venus and took photos of its surface making them the first pictures of anither planet from the surface. Siginicant because we finnally had figured out how other planets look like in our view from the surface. -
First Space shuttle flight
The space shuttle is introduced and sent out to space. The space shuttle is a resuable space craft to help save millions and billions of dollars. -
First Canadian in space
Marc Garneau becomes tthe first canadian in space and later is named the captain of his flights -
Challenger crashes
The challenger exploades moments after takeoff killing all members of the crew and the first nation wide contest winner in it to. -
Hubble Telescope
The space shuttle discovery is sent out to space and released the hubble telescope to space. -
The start of the space station
The first componet of the space station is sent up to space. -
Space station becomes occupied
The first people stay at the international space station and has always been occupied since then -
Columbia Disaster
The space shuttle columbia has a disaster as it tried to re-enter the earth's atmosphere. All crew members passed away. -
First comercial space filght
A winged spacecraft called SpaceShipOne becomes the first privately financed vehicle to officially make it into space. The spacecraft is piloted by Mike Melvill, built by the Scaled Composites corporation, and partially financed by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen.
