BEIJING´S SPACE EXPLORATION

First Satellte in Space

Oct 4, 1957

Sptnnik 1 became thefirst stellite to be launched by man. Inaugurating the SPACE AGE

First U.S. Artificial Satellite

Jan 31, 1958

United States of America launches the first amecrican artificial satellite, the Explorer 1

The creation of the NASA

Jul 29, 1958

President Eisenhower signed the creation of the NASSA

First Hominid into Space

Jan 31, 1961

Ham, the Astrochimp, a chimpanzee was launched into space, as part of America´s Space Program, demostrating that tasks could be performed in space

First Man in Space

Apr 12, 1961

Cosmonaut Yury A. Gagarin became the forst human in space

First Woman to Fly to Space

Jun 16, 1963

Valentina Tereshkova spent almost 3 days in space and orbited Earth 48 times

First Docking of two Spacecraft in Earth Orbit

Mar 16, 1966

Command Pilot Neil Amstrong and Pilot David Scott seccessfully docked their Gemini VIII spacecraft with the Agena target vehicle, the first ever linking of two spacecraft together in Earth orbit. This crucial spaceflight technology milestone would prove vital to the success of future moon landing missions

First Photo of Earth from the Moon Happened

Aug 23, 1966

NASA´s Lunar Orbiter 1 took the first photo of arth from the moon´s orbit and in changed how we see our home planet

First man on the moon surface

Jul 20, 1969

Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that landed the first two people on the Moon. Mission commander Neil Armstrong and pilot Buzz Aldrin, both American, landed the lunar module Eagle on July 20, 1969

First Space Station into Orbit

Apr 19, 1971

Salyut 1, the first operational sapace station, is launched

The Space Probe Pioneer 10

Dec 3, 1973

The space probe Pioneer 10 of NASA becomes the first vehicle that approches Jupiter

First Soft Landing on Venus

Oct 22, 1975

Venera 9, an unmanned Soviet spacecraft became the first spacecraft to land on Venus

First Astrometric Satellite

Aug 18, 1989

Launched by an Ariane-4 rocket, Hipparcos was pioneering space experiment dedicated to the precise measurement of the positions parallaxes and proper motions of the stars

First Orbital Cosmic Microwave Observatory

Nov 18, 1989

COBE was launched to compare the spectrum of the cosmic microwavew background radiation with a precise blackbody

First photograph of the whole Solar System

Feb 14, 1990

The cameras of Voyager 1, the first ever portrait of our solar system as seen from the outside

First Orbit of Jupiter

Dec 7, 1995

The Galileo spacecraft was launched. arrived al Jupiter on Dec. 7. 1995.
It enabled a study the magnetic fields, particles and atmosphere of Jupiter

First Landing on 433 Eros

Feb 17, 1996

NEAR was launched successfully on 17, Febrruary 1996.
It was the first mission to orbit an asteroid and made the first comprehensive scientific measurements of an asteroid´s surface composition, geology, physical properties and internal structure

First International Space Station Module

Nov 20, 1998

The first module of the ISS (or International Space Station ) was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on a Proton rocket

First Sample Return from Comet 81P/Wild

Jan 2, 2004

NASA´s fourth Discovery mission, sucessfully encountered come 81P/Wild, collecting particulate coma samples from comet Wild 2 for rerturn to Earth. These samples will be made available to the scientific community for detailed study

First Soft Landing on Titan

Jan 14, 2005

The European Space Agency´s Huygens probe touched down on the surface os Saturn´s huge moon Titan.
For the first time ever, an emmissary from Earth had landed softly om a world in the outer solar system

First Mission to Orbit around a Dwarf Planet

Mar 6, 2015

NASA´s Dawn spacecraft has become the first mission to achieve orbit around the dwarf planet Ceres