Space Exploration

First animal to fly in space and survive

May 28, 1959

Miss Baker a squirrel monkey animal first U.S. animal to fly in space and return alive

Skylab

1973

(NASA launches the first space station into space ) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVBmjcOh4OM

Voyager 1 & 2 deep space probes launched

Sep 5, 1977

Voyager 1~ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Du5hekU95mY
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Voyager 2~ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MGPM58S5Njg

Space Shuttle Challenger Incident

Jan 28, 1986

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1YFrhpe0I7s

Viking 1

Aug 20, 1995

(NASA lands the first spacecraft on Mars) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGvzju7oWgk

Mars Pathfinder

Jul 4, 1997

landed on Mars and deployed the Sojourner rover
Mars Pathfinger Launched~December 4, 1996 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECdN5lA1vDg

International Space Station is launched into space

Nov 20, 1998

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z0Ut8daLD6I

Space shuttle Columbia Incident

Feb 1, 2003

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1oBTzbKx0jo

Pluto's a dwarf planet :(

Aug 24, 2006

Pluto's demoted from being a planet to a Dwarf planet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CnNzpnCj1yo

Signs of life discovered on Mars

Jun 7, 2018

NASA announced that the Curiosity rover had discovered organic molecules in sedimentary rocks dating to three billion years old. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWPO-VViwx4

Black Hole Picture

Apr 10, 2019

Astronomers first picture of the Black Hole https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpYcCI9uzKo

Sending Humans to Mars

2030

NASA set a goal in 2003 to send people to Mars by 2030 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ychKZIG8ms