Space Exploration

1st man made satellite

Oct 4, 1957

Sputnik 1

1st living creature in space

Nov 3, 1957

spidnik 2

NASA founded

Jul 29, 1958

First human in space

Apr 12, 1961

Yuri Gagarin

First American in space

May 5, 1961

Alan Shepard

1st American in orbit

Feb 20, 1962

John Glenn

1st woman in space

Jun 16, 1963

Valentina tereshkova

1st Spacewalk

Jun 3, 1965

1st 2 people on the moon

Jul 16, 1969

Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong

Skylab Launched

May 14, 1973

Skylab falls to Earth

Jul 11, 1979

1st shuttle launch

Apr 12, 1981

Columbia

1st American woman in space

Jun 18, 1983

Sally Ride

Challenger Disaster

Jan 28, 1986

Over the Atlantic Ocean

Hubble Telescope launched

Apr 24, 1990

1st landing on Asteriod

Feb 17, 1996

Mars rover Spirit landing

Aug 6, 2000

Columbia Disaster

Feb 1, 2003

killed 7 people

Mars Rover Opportunity

Jan 25, 2004

Cassini-Huygens arrives at Saturn

Jul 1, 2004

International Space Station completed

May 23, 2010

Last Launch

Jul 8, 2011

Mars Rover Curiosity

Aug 6, 2012