Space exploration timeline By JulianBritt Mar 16, 1926 Robert Goddard launches 1st successful liquid fuel rocket Oct 4, 1957 Soviet Union launched Sputnik 1 Nov 3, 1957 Sputnik 2 carried the first living being into space Jan 31, 1958 US launches Explorer 1 Apr 12, 1961 Yuri Gagarin (1st man launched into space) Jun 16, 1963 First woman in space Mar 18, 1965 Alexei Leonov – 1st man to walk in space Jan 27, 1967 Apollo completes 1st manned mission for Apollo program Jul 20, 1969 Neil Armstrong – 1st man to walk on the moon Apr 19, 1971 Soviets were the first to successfully place a space station in orbit Nov 14, 1971 American space orbiter Mariner 9 surveys Mars May 14, 1973 NASA - the first space station into space Aug 20, 1975 NASA lands the first spacecraft on Mars Aug 20, 1977 Voyager 1 & 2 deep space probes launched Feb 7, 1984 First person to do a spacewalk without a spacecraft. Jan 28, 1986 Space Shuttle Challenger Incident Apr 24, 1990 The Launch of the Hubble space telescope Oct 6, 1995 Discovery of Extrasolar Planets Feb 17, 1996 Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) Shoemaker Mission Dec 4, 1996 Mars Pathfinder landed on Mars and deployed the Sojourner rover Nov 20, 1998 International Space Station is launched into space Feb 1, 2003 Space shuttle Columbia Incident
