Space Exploration

By amoore16

  • Sputnik 1

    Sputnik 1 was the first artificial sattelite launched to space
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    Space Exploration

  • Project Mercury

    Alan B. Shepard became the first U.S. citizen in space

  • First Human in Space

    Yuri A. Gagarin a Soviet cosmonaut became the first human in space

  • First U.S. citizen to orbit Earth

    John Glenn became the first U.S citizen to orbit Earth

  • Mariner 2

    It verified high temperatures in Venus's atmosphere

  • Project Apollo

    Neil Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin became the first people to the moon.

  • Pioneer 10

    First probe to encouter an outer planet (Jupiter)

  • Project Apollo ends

    Project Apollo ends and 2,00 samples of moon rocks are brought back

  • Skylab

    U.S launched space station Skylab

  • Mariner 10

    it obtained the first good images of the surface of Mercury

  • viking 1

    Orbited Mars surface lander searched for life on Mars

  • Magellan

    mapped Venus's surface and returned data on the composition of it's atmosphere

  • Voyager 2

    Mission include flying by the outer planets which are Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune