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The first artificial satellite was Sputnik 1.
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Laika, the dog, was the first creature on space.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower founded NASA.
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Yuri Gagarin was the first human in space.
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Alan B. Shepard was the first American in space.
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John Glenn was the first American in orbit.
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Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova was the first woman in space.
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Alexei Leonov made the first spacewalk.
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Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were the first two people to be on the moon.
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Skylab was a space station launched and operated by NASA.
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STS-1 was the first orbital flight of NASA's Space Shuttle program.
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Sally Ride was the first American woman in space.
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The NASA Space Shuttle orbiter Challenger broke apart 73 seconds into its flight. Which lead to the deaths of its seven crew members, which included five NASA astronauts and two payload specialists.
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The Hubble Space Telescope is a space telescope that was launched into low Earth orbit and remains in operation.
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Assembly of the International Space Station is about the construction of an Earth-orbiting space station.
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NEAR Shoemaker is the 1st Landing on an Asteroid.
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A piece of foam insulation broke off from the Space Shuttle external tank and struck the left wing.
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The rover was originally designed for a 90 Sol mission and it landed on Mars.
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The rover was originally designed for a 90 Sol mission and it landed on Mars.
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Cassini–Huygens is an unmanned spacecraft sent to the planet Saturn.
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It was America's first manned space station.
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Curiosity was launched from Cape Canaveral.
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Dan Winters was one of a few who got close-up access to the shuttles for their final launches.
