Space Exploration By 380046 Mar 16, 1926 Robert Goddard launches 1st successful liquid fuel rocket Oct 4, 1957 Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1 Nov 3, 1957 Sputnik 2 carried the first living being into space Jan 31, 1958 US launches Explorer 1 Apr 12, 1961 Yuri Gagarin (1st man launched into space) Jun 16, 1963 First Woman in Space Mar 18, 1965 Alexei Leonov – 1st man to walk in space Jul 16, 1969 Apollo completes 1st manned mission for Apollo program Jul 20, 1969 Neil Armstrong – 1st man to walk on the moon Apr 19, 1971 Soviets were the first to successfully place a space station in orbit Nov 14, 1971 American space orbiter Mariner 9 surveys Mars May 14, 1973 NASA launches the first space station into space Jul 20, 1976 NASA lands the first spacecraft on Mars Sep 5, 1977 Voyager 1 & 2 deep space probes launched Jan 28, 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger Incident Apr 25, 1990 Launch of the Hubble Space Telescope Jul 4, 1997 Mars Pathfinder landed on Mars and deployed the Sojourner rover Nov 20, 1998 International Space Station is launched into space Feb 1, 2003 Space shuttle Columbia Incident Jun 21, 2004 Flight of the First Private Spacecraft Feb 18, 2021 Mars 2020 Mission Landing 2024 NASA Moon Base
