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The Russians Launched the Sputnik 1 into space. It was the first artificial satellite.
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The NASA is established in the U.S. It replaces the NAC on areonots.
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The Luna 3 photographed 70% percent of the far side of the moon.
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FriendShip 7 product mercury contains John H and Glen, Jr. and orbits the earth 3 times.
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Gemini 3 was the first manned mission in NASA's Gemini program, the second American manned space program. Astronauts Gus Grissom and John Young flew three low Earth orbits.
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Venera 3 was a Venera program space probe that was built and launched by the Soviet Union to explore the surface of Venus. It was launched on 16 November 1965 at 04:19 UTC from Baikonur, Kazakhstan, USSR.
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The Lunar Orbiter program was a series of five unmanned lunar orbiter missions launched by the United States from 1966 through 1967.
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Neil Armstrong and Edwin Adrian make a “small step for man and a large step for mankind.”
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As part of NASA's wider Mariner program, Mariner 6 and Mariner 7 completed the first dual mission to Mars in 1969. Mariner 6 was launched from Launch Complex 36B at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
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Skylab was the United States' only space station, orbiting Earth from 1973 to 1979, when it fell back to Earth amid huge worldwide media attention.
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Challenger explodes 73 seconda after launch. Grounding the fleet flight for 2 years.
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Four years later, their newest research shows current conditions exceed their predictions by about 10 percent, showing the radiation environment is worsening even more than expected.