Space Exploration

By nmreyes

  • Space Race Starts

    USSR vs. US

  • Launch of Sputnik I

  • First living creature in orbit

    Laika, a mixed-breed dog, was the first living creature in orbit

  • NASA formed

  • Frst artificial object to reach another celestial body

    Done by Luna 2

  • First Human Spaceflight

  • US achieved Orbital flight

    John Glenn's Mercury-Atlas 6 orbited the Earth on 20 February 1962.

  • First woman in space

    Valentina Tereshkova aboard Vostok 6

  • First Spacewalk

    Done by Aleksei Leonov

  • First spacecraft to achieve a soft landing on a planet other than earth

    Done by the Luna 9 spacecraft

  • First Humans on the Moon

    US landing of the first humans on the Moon on Apollo 11

  • First Moon landing by Apollo 11

  • First space station

    Launched by the Soviet Union

  • Closest approach to Uranus

  • China first launched a person into space

    Yang Liwei aboard the Shenzhou 5

  • STS-133 launched