Science- Space History

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  • First Satellite Launched

    First Satellite Launched

    Sputnik 1 was the first artificial Earth satellite. The Soviet Union launched it into an elliptical low Earth orbit.
  • First Human in Space

    First Human in Space

    Yuri Gagarin
  • First American in Space

    First American in Space

    Alan Shepard
  • Apollo 11 Mission

    Apollo 11 Mission

    It perform a crewed lunar landing and return to Earth.
  • First Human to Orbit the Earth

    First Human to Orbit the Earth

    John Glenn
  • First Space Walk

    First Space Walk

    Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov made the first spacewalk in history.
  • Apollo 1 Mission

    Apollo 1 Mission

    A flash fire occurred in command module 012 during a launch pad test of the Apollo/Saturn space vehicle being prepared for the first piloted flight. Three astronauts lost their lives.
  • Apollo 8 Mission

    Apollo 8 Mission

    The first manned spacecraft to leave Earth orbit, reach the Earth's Moon, orbit it and return safely to Earth.
  • Apollo 13 Misssion

    Apollo 13 Misssion

    The lunar landing was aborted after an oxygen tank exploded two days later, crippling the Service Module.
  • Apollo 17 Mission

    Apollo 17 Mission

    The final Apollo Mission
  • Mariner 10 Launched

    Mariner 10 Launched

    The mission objectives were to measure Mercury's environment, atmosphere, surface, and body characteristics and to make similar investigations of Venus
  • Voyager 2 Launched

    Voyager 2 Launched

    launched to study the outer planets.
  • First Space Shuttle Launch

    First Space Shuttle Launch

    The orbiter Columbia, with two crew members, astronauts John W. Young, commander, and Robert L. Crippen, pilot.
  • First American Woman in Space

    First American Woman in Space

    Sally Ride
  • Challenger Disaster

    Challenger Disaster

    Challenger broke apart 73 seconds into its flight, leading to the deaths of its seven crew members
  • Galileo Launched

    Galileo Launched

    an unmanned spacecraft that studied the planet Jupiter and its moons, as well as several other Solar System bodies.
  • Hubble Launched

    Hubble Launched

    A space telescope that was launched into low Earth orbit and remains in operation.
  • Zarya

    Zarya

    First piece of the international space station launched
  • First Tourist in Space

    First Tourist in Space

    American businessman Dennis Tito
  • Colombia Disaster

    Colombia Disaster

    Columbia disintegrated over Texas and Louisiana as it reentered Earth's atmosphere, killing all seven crew members.
  • First Launch of Space Ship One

    First Launch of Space Ship One

    A suborbital air-launched spaceplane that completed the first manned private spaceflight.
  • New Horizions Launched

    New Horizions Launched

    The spacecraft was launched to study the Pluto system and, in its secondary mission, the Kuiper belt, performing a flyby of Pluto and one or more other Kuiper belt objects.
  • First Chinese Space Walk

    First Chinese Space Walk

    Zhai Zhigang, wearing a Chinese-developed Feitian space suit, conducted a 22-minute space walk.
  • Last Space Shuttle Launch

    Last Space Shuttle Launch

    It used the orbiter Atlantis
  • Curiosity Mars Landing

    Curiosity Mars Landing

    a car-sized robotic rover exploring Gale Crater on Mars as part of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission
  • New Horizions Reaches Pluto

    New Horizions Reaches Pluto