space exploration timeline

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  • dog dies in space

    dog doesnt make it back to eartgh

  • first man made orbit

    • Sputnik 1, the first man-made object to orbit the Earth, is launched by the U.S.S.R., and remains in orbit until January 4, 1958.

  • rocket reached jupiters orbit

    March 5, 1958 - Explorer 2 is launched by a Jupiter-C rocket, and fails to reach orbit.

  • space time line

    March 17, 1958 - Vanguard 1 satellite is launched into orbit, and continues to transmit for 3 years.

  • first man to moon

    January 2, 1959 - Luna 1, first man-made satellite to orbit the moon, is launched by the U.S.S.R.

  • first weather satalite

    April 1, 1960 - Tiros 1, the first successful weather satellite, is launched by the U.S.

  • first live telacast to space

    July 10, 1962 - Telstar 1, U.S. satellite, beams the first live transatlantic telecast.

  • first live telescope

    Telstar 1, U.S. satellite, beams the first live transatlantic telecast.

  • first moon walk

    March 18, 1965 - The first space walk is made from Soviet Voskhod 2 by Cosmonaut Alexei A. Leonov. Duration is 12 minutes.

  • first space craft to orbit moon

    • Soviet Luna 10 is the first spacecraft to orbit the moon.

  • first picture of earth

    U.S. Lunar Orbiter 1 enters moon orbit, and takes the first picture of the Earth from the distance of the moon.

  • first telescope langed

    first teloscope launged into space

  • 14 moon mition launched

    • Apollo 14 moon mission is launched by the U.S. with the legendary Alan Shepard, along with Stuart Roosa and Edgar Mitchell on board. They land in the planned Apollo 13 site, the Fra Mauro highlands, which they explore with the help of a two-wheeled cart that permits the transport of a significantly greater quantity of lunar material than previous missions. Shepard becomes the first man to hit a golf ball on the moon.

  • first duel plate launged

    • American Mariner 10 is launched, on the first dual-planet mission. Over the next year, it returned photographs of Venus and Mercury.

  • the galilao spacecraft arrives at jupiter

    The Galileo spacecraft arrives at Jupiter, performing an orbit while dropping a probe into the atmosphere, and putting a satellite into orbit, which will spend the next two years orbiting the planet.

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