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more than four months after Sputnik, Von Braun's team launched a Jupiter-C rocket from Cape Canaveral, Fla. The rocket carried Explorer I, America's first satellite.
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NASA announces plans for Project Mercury and chose the first seven astronauts.
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Marshall Center Opens
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The Marshall Center provided the Redstone launch vehicle for Freedom 7. The launch vehicle placed Alan Shepard, the first American astronaut, in suborbit on May 5, 1961.
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President Kennedy Sets Goal of Man's Lunar Landing Within a Decade. (month and day not given)
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1st launch of a Saturn in 1967 (month and day not given)
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A total of 13 SaturnV rockets were launched from 1967-1973
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A total of 13 SaturnV rockets were launched from 1967-1973
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Apollo 11 was the first space craft to land humans on the moon.
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Apollo 15 was the first mission to use LRV to travel on the moon
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Skylab became the free world's first space station funded by Marshall providing the hardware and experiments for the Skylab program. (day not given)
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High-Energy Astronomy Observatory (HEAO) spacecraft. The missions focused on some of the most intresting mysteries of the universe: pulsars, black holes, neutron stars and super nova. (month and day not given).
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Marshall's role in developing the Space Shuttle came when the orbiter Enterprise arrived at the Mated Vertical Ground Vibration Test (MVGVT) series. (month and day not given)
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EASE (Experimental Assembly of Structures in Extravehicular Activity). Nasa examined ways to build structures in space.
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Huntsville Operational Support Center activated for shuttle launch. (month and day not given)
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Chandra is the world's most powerful X-ray telescope. It has eight-times greater resolution and is able to detect sources more than 20-times fainter than any previous X-ray telescope.( month and day not given).
