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Sputnitk 1 was the first Russian made aircraft sent into space.
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U.S. Ranger 7 orbits the moon and takes picture of the moon
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First ever man to land on the moon and first American to
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American Mariner 9 first space craft sent to orbit Mars
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Soviet military base Salut 5 stays in orbit till August 8, 1977
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Venera 13 lands on Venus and also, the spacecraft takes the first testable soil to earth
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(Day of discovery is unknown) Astronomers discover an invisible gravity force that splits a quasar's light
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A spacecraft sent to Jupiter missies and fall towards the sun
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The Galileo space probe reaches Jupiter's moon, Europa, and is May 30 flew by Jupiter's largests moon.