Manned Spaced Exploration Timeline

By bryce0117

  • Chuck Yaeger pilots X-1 rocket plane, breaks sound barrier.

    Chuck Yaeger pilots X-1 rocket plane, breaks sound barrier.
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    Manned Space Exploration Timeline

    In 1801, Guiseppe Piazzi dicovered Ceres, the first known asteroid.

  • U.S.S.R launches Sputnik 2, carrying a dog named Laika.

  • Uri Gagarin becomes first human to orbit Earth.

  • Allan Shepard becomes first American in space, completes 15-minute suborbital hop.

  • U.S. President J.F. Kennedy announces project to land human on Moon within decade.

  • John Glenn becomes first American in orbit.

  • Apollo11 astronauts land on the moon.

  • Japan launches first spacecraft, using Lambda 4S rocket.

  • U.S. launches Skylab spacestation. Astronauts soon follow.

  • First flight off the Space Shuttle.

  • U.S. loses Space shuttle Challenger with all its crew,exploding shortly after launch from Cape Canaveral.

  • Space shuttle Columbia disintegrates above Texas, during re-entry.

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