Space Exploration Timeline

By kw19121
  • The first spotting of the moon through a telescope by Galileo Galilei

    The first spotting of the moon through a telescope by Galileo Galilei

  • Robert H. Goddard launches first liquid fueled rockets

  • First animals launched into space (fruit flies) by the U.S.

  • First artificial satellite put into space that brings back signals to earth launched by the USSR

  • First animal launched into orbit, dog named Laika launched by USSR

    First animal launched into orbit, dog named Laika launched by USSR

  • Explorer 1 was the first satellite launched by the United States

  • Cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov takes man's first space walk.

    Cosmonaut Aleksei Leonov takes man's first space walk.

  • First manned spacecraft to orbit moon, Apollo 8, comes within 70 miles of lunar surface.

  • Man walks on the moon. Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin of Apollo XI spend 21 1/2 hours on the moon, 2 1/2 of those outside the capsule

    Man walks on the moon. Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin of Apollo XI spend 21 1/2 hours on the moon, 2 1/2 of those outside the capsule

  • Skylab I, first U.S. orbiting laboratory, launched

  • Sally Ride becomes first American woman in space.

  • The Space Shuttle Discovery deployed the Hubble Space Telescope.

  • Eileen Collins became the first female Shuttle Commander

  • An American and Russian crew begins living aboard the international space station

    An American and Russian crew begins living aboard the international space station

  • American Dennis Tito became the first tourist in space after paying the Russian space program $20,000,000