Science Timeline

By ZachB
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    Space Events

  • Sputnik1

    First Earth Satelite ever to go into space.

  • Sputnik 2

    First animal in orbit

  • Explorer 1

    First American satellite, confirmed exsistence of Van Allen belts

  • Luna 1

    First rocket shot into space

  • Explorer 6

    First photo of Earth from orbit.

  • Vostok 1

    First human spaceflight

  • Mariner 4

    First Mars flyby

  • Luna 9

    First soft landing on another planet(Moon)

  • Apollo 11

    Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that landed the first humans onto the moon.

  • Salyut 1

    First Space Station

  • Mariner 9

    First to maintain orbit around another planet

  • Venera 9

    First photos from the surface of another planet(Venus)

  • Viking Lander

    First photos and soil samples from Mars

  • Pioneer 11

    First Saturn Flyby

  • Venera 13

    First Venus samples and sound recording from another planet

  • Pioneer 10

    First Spacecraft beyond the orbit of Neptune

  • Voyager 1

    First photo of the whole solar system

  • Galileo's atmospheric entry probe

    First mission into the atmosphere of a gas giant

  • Galileo

    First orbit of Jupiter

  • Galileo's atmospheric entry probe

    First orbiting of a asteroid

  • Spirit Rover

    First Landing on a asteroid

  • Cassini Huygens

    First orbit of Saturn

  • Cassini Huygens

    First soft landing on Titan

  • Curiosity Rover

    Rover lands on Mars to seek out life clues.

  • MESSENGER

    First orbit of Mercury