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Sputnik
On October 4, 1957, at 7:28 PM our history changed forever the first satellite launched -
Allen B Shepard the first American in space.
From Cape Canaveral, Florida, Navy Commander Alan Bartlett Shepard Jr. is launched into space aboard the Freedom 7 space capsule, becoming the first American astronaut to travel into space. -
John Glenn first man to circle earth
On February 20, 1962, NASA launched one of the most important flights in American history. The mission was to send a man to orbit earth. -
First spacewalk
Alexey Arkhipovich Leonov is a retired Soviet/Russian cosmonaut and Air Force Major general. On 18 March 1965, he became the first human to conduct extravehicular activity, exiting the capsule during the Voskhod 2 mission for a 12-minute spacewalk. -
Apollo 1 mission
The mission was to be the first crewed flight as Apollo and was scedualed to take off Febuary 21, 1967. Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee were lilled on this plug in test. -
Apollo 8 mission
The second human spaceflight mission in the United SStates Apollo stpace program and became the first space craft to leave earth orbit reach the earths moon and orbit again making it safely back to earth. -
apollo 11
This was when the 1st people on earth.Presedent Jonh F. Kennedyon May 25 1961. Many people dont beleive this happened and was a hoax. It deppends on who you are i guess. -
Apollo 13
Apollo 13 was the seventh manned mission in the American Apollo space program and the third intended to land on the Moon. -
Apollo 17
Apollo 17 was the final mission of NASA's Apollo program, the enterprise that landed the first humans on the Moon. -
Mariner 10 Launched
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, on a trajectory that took longer to reach Jupiter and Saturn but enabled further encounters with Uranus and Neptune.It is the only spacecraft to have ever visited either of the ice giants. -
First Space Shutttle Launch
The first launch of the Space Shuttle occurred on 12 April 1981, exactly 20 years after the first manned space flight, when the orbiter Columbia, with two crew members, astronauts John W. Young, commander, and Robert L. Crippen, pilot, lifted off from Pad A, Launch Complex 39, at the Kennedy Space Center. -
Sally Ride first women in space
On June 18, 1983, Sally Ride became the first American woman to fly in space when the space shuttle Challenger launched on mission STS-7. -
The Challenger Disaster
The Space Shuttle Challenger disaster occurred on January 28, 1986, when the NASA Space Shuttle orbiter Challenger broke apart 73 seconds into its flight, leading to the deaths of its seven crew members. -
Galileo Launched
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 Space Launch
Since the earliest days of astronomy, since the time of Galileo, astronomers have shared a single goal — to see more, see farther, see deeper. -
international space station construction
they launched a piece at a time. -
First Tourist in space
American businessman Dennis Tito, the world's first orbital space tourist, is seen training for his historic 2001 flight to the International Space Station. Tito launched in April 2001 aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft thanks to a $20 million deal brokered by the Virginia-based firm Space Adventures -
Columbia Disaster
The Space Shuttle Columbia disaster occurred on February 1, 2003, when Columbia disintegrated over Texas and Louisiana as it reentered Earth's atmosphere, killing all seven crew members. -
First Launch of Space Ship 1
The first private spaceflight occurred on June 21, 2004, when SpaceShipOne, the first non-governmental manned spacecraft, flew 62.5 miles above Earth's surface to reach the boundary of space. -
New Horizons Launched
New Horizons is an interplanetary space probe that was launched as a part of NASA's New Frontiers program. Engineered by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory and the Southwest Research Institute with a team led by S. Alan Stern, the spacecraft was launched to study the Pluto system and, in its secondary mission, the Kuiper belt, performing a flyby of Pluto and one or more other Kuiper belt objects -
New Horizions reaches Pluto
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. 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 beyo -
First Chineese Spacewalk
Shenzhou 7 (simplified Chinese: 神舟七号; traditional Chinese: 神舟七號; pinyin: Shénzhōu Qī Hào) -
Last Space Shuttle Launch
STS-135 launched on 8 July 2011, and landed on 21 July 2011, following a one-day mission extension. The four-person crew was the smallest of any shuttle mission since STS-6 in April 1983. -
Curiosity Mars Landing
The rover's goals include: investigation of the Martian climate and geology; assessment of whether the selected field site inside Gale Crater has ever offered environmental conditions favorable for microbial life, including investigation of the role of water; and planetary habitability studies in preparation for future human exploration. -
hubble brought back down
People believe in 2024 the hubble space craft will decay and break up into millions of peices. They beleive it should come back down.
