Space Exploration

By amanda.minge

  • First Satellite launched

    October 4, 1957. 7:28 PM

  • First Human Spaceflight

    Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin made 1 orbit around the Earth.

  • First American in Space

  • Apollo 11 mission

    The primary objective of Apollo 11 was to complete a national goal set by President John F. Kennedy on May 25, 1961

  • First American to circle the Earth

    John Glenn was the first man to circle the Earth.

  • First space walk

    On June 3, at the age of 30, Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov made the first spacewalk in history, beating out American rival Ed White on Gemini 4 by almost three months.

  • Apollo 1 mission

    the misssion was to be the first crewed flight of Apollo, and was scheduled to launch on February 21,1967

  • Apollo 8 mission

    the 2nd human spaceflight mission in the United States Apollo Space program and became the first manned spacecraft to leave Earth, orbit the Earth's moon, orbut it and return safetly to earth.

  • Apollo 13 mission

    It was the 7th manned mission in the American Apollo Space Program and the 3rd intended to land on the moon.

  • Apollo 17 mission

    It was launched at 12:33 AM Eastern time (EST) on December 7, 1972.

  • First space shuttle launch

    The first launch of the Space Shuttle occurred on 12 April 1981, exactly 20 years after the first manned space flight.

  • First American Woman in Space

    Sally Ride was the first woman in space.

  • 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 member

  • Hubble Brought Back Down

    The Hubble Space Telescope is a telescope that was launched into low earth orbit in 1990.

  • 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

  • New Horizons Launched

    NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida aboard a fast-moving Atlas V rocket. as it headed for a distant rendezvous with the mysterious planet Pluto almost a decade from now.

  • First Chinese space walk

    Chinese Astronauts Complete First Spacewalk. Chinese astronaut Zhai Zhigang waves from outside his Shenzhou 7 spacecraft. He became his country's first spacewalker.

  • Last Space Suttle Luanch

    STS-135 was the 135th and final mission of the American Space Shuttle program.

  • Curiosity Mars Landing

    Curiosity was launched from Cape Canaveral on November 26, 2011, at 15:02 UTC aboard the MSL spacecraft and landed on Aeolis Palus in Gale Crater on Mars on August 6, 2012, 05:17 UTC