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The first artificial satellite to orbit Earth. The first artificial satellite was Sputnik 1, launched by the Soviet Union on October 4, 1957, and initiating the Soviet Sputnik program, with Sergei Korolev as chief designer
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Laika was a Soviet space dog who became one of the first animals in space, and the first animal to orbit the Earth
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Was a Russian Soviet pilot and cosmonaut. He was the first human to journey into outer space, when his Vostok spacecraft completed an orbit of the Earth on 12 April 1961.
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From this prestigious group of highly trained fliers, Shepard was selected to man the first space flight, with Glenn acting as his backup. Astronaut Alan B. Shepard is rescued by a U.S. Marine helicopter at the end of his sub-orbital Mercury-Redstone 3
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On February 20, 1962, Glenn flew the Friendship 7 mission and became the first American to orbit the Earth and the fifth person in space.
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After 48 orbits and 71 hours, she returned to earth, having spent more time in space than all U.S. astronauts combined to that date.
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From the Voskhod 2 spacecraft, for 12 minutes outside the spacecraft.
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Neil Armstrong, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin and Michael Collins were the astronauts on Apollo 11. Four days later, Armstrong and Aldrin landed on the moon. They landed on the moon in the Lunar Module.
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On July 11, 1979, the world watched as Skylab, America’s first manned space station, hurtled toward Earth.
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Sally Ride became the first American woman to fly in space when the space shuttle Challenger launched on mission STS-7.
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On January 28, 1986, the American shuttle orbiter Challenger broke up 73 seconds after liftoff, bringing a devastating end to the spacecraft’s 10th mission.
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Was designed to study the near Earth asteroid 433 Eros, one of the largest of the near Earth asteroids, from close orbit over a period of one year.
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On Feb. 1, 2003, space shuttle Columbia broke up as it returned to Earth, killing the seven astronauts on board. NASA suspended space shuttle flights for more than two years as it investigated the disaster.
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It was one of two rovers of NASA's ongoing Mars Exploration Rover Mission.
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Launched on July 7, 2003 as part of NASA's Mars Exploration Rover program.
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Cassini–Huygens is an unmanned spacecraft sent to the planet Saturn
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Atlantis rolled to a stop at its home port, NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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Curiosity is a car-sized robotic rover exploring Gale Crater on Mars as part of NASA's Mars Science Laboratory mission.
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A new era in space flight began on April 12, 1981, when Space Shuttle Columbia, or STS-1, soared into orbit from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
