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First Satelite
Sputnik 1 -
First American
Alan Shepard -
First Human
Yuri Gagarin -
Fist man to circle the earth
John Glenn -
First Space Walk
During the Gemini 4 mission on June 3, 1965, Ed White became the first American to conduct a spacewalk. The spacewalk started at 3:45 p.m. EDT on the third orbit when White opened the hatch and used the hand-held manuevering oxygen-jet gun to push himself out of the capsule. -
Apollo 1
A fire started inside the space capsul killing 3 astronauts. -
Apollo 8
It took astronauts farther tham anyone had gone before. It had orbited a another world. -
Apllo 11
"The Eagle has landed…" perform a crewed lunar landing and return to Earth. Also Neil Armstromg had the first human footprint on the moon. -
Apollo 13
An explosion in one of the oxygen tanks crippled the spacecraft during the flight. -
Apollo 17
It was the last Apollo mission to land men on the moon. -
Mariner 10
Mariner 10 was an American robotic space probe launched by NASA on November 3, 1973, to fly by the planets Mercury and Venus. Mariner 10 was launched approximately two years after Mariner 9 and was the last spacecraft in the Mariner program -
Voyager 2
Voyager 2 is a space probe launched by NASA on August 20, 1977 to study the outer planets. Part of the Voyager program, it was launched 16 days before its twin, Voyager 1. -
Space Shuttle Launch
The Space Shuttle was a partially reusable low Earth orbital spacecraft system operated by the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration. -
First American Woman
Sally Ride -
Challenger Disaster
broke up 73 seconds after lift off, bringing a devastating end to the spacecraft's 10th mission, killing all seven members aboard. -
Galileo
Galileo was an unmanned spacecraft that studied the planet Jupiter and its moons, as well as several other Solar System bodies. Named after the astronomer Galileo Galilei, it consisted of an orbiter and entry probe -
Hubble Launched
The purpose of it was to see more, see farther, and see deeper. -
Space Station
Launched into orbit in 1998, it is the largest artifictial body in orbit and can often be seen with the naked eye from earth. -
First tourist
American businessman Dennis Tito, the world's first orbital space tourist, is seen training for his historic 2001 flight to the International Space Station. -
Curiosity Mars
Curiosity is a car-sized robotic rover exploring Gale Crater on Mars as part of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission. -
Columbia disaster
It disinigrated over Texas and Louisiana as reentered Earth's atmosphere, killing all seven crew members. -
First launch of spaceship 1
SpaceShipOne is an experimental air-launched rocket-powered aircraft with suborbital flight capability that uses a hybrid rocket motor. -
New Horizons
New Horizons launched on Jan. 19, 2006; it swung past Jupiter for a gravity boost and scientific studies in February 2007, and conducted a six-month-long reconnaissance flyby study of Pluto and its moons in summer 2015, culminating with Pluto closest approach on July 14, 2015. -
First Chinese space walk
Zhai Zhigang is an officer in the People's Liberation Army Air Force and a CNSA astronaut. During the Shenzhou 7 mission in 2008, he became the first Chinese citizen to carry out a spacewalk. -
Last Space Shuttle Launch
Atlantis was the fourth shuttle constructed and the last one to fly into space. It performed well in 25 years of service, flying 33 missions that included secret missions for the U.S. military, ferrying astronauts to and from space stations and launching several probes. -
New Horizon Pluto
As part of an extended mission, pending NASA approval, the spacecraft is expected to head farther into the Kuiper Belt to examine another of the ancient, icy mini-worlds in that vast region, at least a billion miles beyond Neptune’s orbit.
