Interactive Space Exploartion Timeline By TheRairi Mar 16, 1926 Robert Goddard launches 1st successful liquid fuel rocket Oct 4, 1957 Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1 Nov 3, 1957 Sputnik 2 carried the first living being into space Jan 31, 1958 US launches Explorer 1 Apr 12, 1961 Yuri Gagarin (1st man launched into space) Jun 3, 1963 First American Spacewalk Jun 16, 1963 First Woman in Space Mar 18, 1965 Alexei Leonov – 1st man to walk in space Jul 20, 1969 Neil Armstrong – 1st man to walk on the moon Jul 20, 1969 Apollo completes 1st manned mission for Apollo program Apr 19, 1971 Soviets were the first to successfully place a space station in orbit May 30, 1971 American space orbiter Mariner 9 surveys Mars May 14, 1973 NASA launches the first space station into space Jul 20, 1976 NASA lands the first spacecraft on Mars Aug 20, 1977 Voyager 2 deep space probes launched Sep 5, 1977 Voyager 1 deep space probes launched Jun 18, 1983 Sally Ride becomes first American woman in space Feb 7, 1984 Bruce McCandless performs man's first untethered spacewalk Jan 28, 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger Incident Jul 4, 1997 Mars Pathfinder landed on Mars and deployed the Sojourner rover Nov 20, 1998 International Space Station is launched into space Apr 29, 2001 First space tourist Feb 1, 2003 Space shuttle Columbia Incident
