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Sputnik 1
Sputnik 1 was luanched by the soviet union. -
Sputnik 2
Sputnik 2 was luanched with Laika the dog on board. -
NASA
NASA is formed after Congress passes the National Aeronautics and Space Act. -
First human to enter space
Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human to enter space and return safely. -
Sending austronauts to the moon
U.S. President John F. Kennedy announces the goal of sending astronauts to the moon before the end of the decade. -
launch of Gemini 5
Launch of Gemini 5, carrying astronauts Gordon Cooper and Charles Conrad on an eight-day mission to test navigation system and to see how humans respond to long term living in space. -
Apollo 11
Launch of Apollo 11 -
Men on the Moon
Astronauts Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong become the first men to walk on the moon. -
Space station was launched
United States launches its first experimental space station, the Skylab. -
launch of voyager 1
voyager 1 was launched. -
NASA's space shuttle program
Aboard the space shuttle Columbia, Robert L. Crippen and John W. Young make the first mission in NASA's space shuttle program. -
First woman in space
Sally Ride becomes first American woman in space with launch of shuttle mission STS-7 aboard the space shuttle Challenger -
space shuttle explodes
First major disaster for NASA, when space shuttle Challenger explodes 73 seconds after takeoff with seven crewmembers aboard -
MIR space station
The MIR space station was launched -
Astronauts on MIR
Astronaut Norman Thagard launched with Cosmonauts Vladimir Dezhurov and Gennady Strekalov aboard a Russian Soyuz to spend 115 days on MIR. -
Mars Path finder was created
Launch of Mars Pathfinder -
Pathfinder lands on mars
Pathfinder lands on Mars. The rover Sojourner would go on to explore the Martian surface for more than 80 days. -
International space station
First piece of the International Space Station is launched. -
expedition one astronauts
The crew of Expedition One, astronaut Bill Shepherd and cosmonauts Yuri Gidzenko and Sergei Krikalev, dock at the International Space Station. They are the first people to take up residence at the ISS, staying there for several months -
Genesis was luanched
Launch of Genesis, which would collect samples of atoms from solar wind. Genesis would be the first attempt to return samples to Earth since the Apollo moon mission in 1972. -
Genesis crash landing
After capturing particles from the sun, Genesis makes a dramatic crash landing in Utah when its parachute fails to deploy. Despite the landing, scientists still managed to recover and study the samples. -
Phoenix lander launched
Phoenix lander launches on its way to explore the northern pole of Mars.
