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First Man in Space
Yuri Gagarin made a 108-minute orbit around Earth in his Vostok 1 spacecraft. -
First American in Space
Alan Shepard flew in his Freedom 7 capsule 116 feet in the air for 15 ½ minutes. -
First Man to Orbit Earth
John Glenn blasted off in his Friendship 7 capsule and orbited Earth 3 times in five hours at 17,000 mph. He was also the oldest man to travel to space. -
First Space Walk
During the Voskhod 2 mission, Alexey Leonov conducted the first spacewalk in history, which was 12 minutes long -
Apollo 1
Astronaunts Virgil Grissom, Edward White, and Robert Chaffee died in a preflight test at Cape Kennedy -
Sputnik 1
Sputnik 1 was launched into space. This event is said to be the spark of the Space Race. -
Apollo 8
Apollo 8 was the first manned spacecraft to leave Earth's orbit, reach Earth's moon, orbit it, and return safely to Earth. The crew was the first to travel beyond low Earth orbit, and to see the entire planet Earth. -
Apollo 11
Apollo 11 was the first spaceflight to land humans on the moon. They collected 47.5 pounds of lunar material and planted an American flag before returning to Earth. -
Apollo 13
Appolo 13 was originally going to be the third moon landing, but it was cut short when the oxygen tank blew up. -
Apollo 17
Apollo 17 was the last of NASA's Apollo programs. -
Mariner 10 Launch
Mariner 10 was an American robotic space probe launched by NASA on November 3, 1973, to fly by the planets Mercury and Venus. -
Voyager 2 Launch
Voyager 2 is a space probe launched by NASA on August 20, 1977 to study the outer planets. -
First Space Shuttle Launch
John Young and Robert Crippen flew Columbia into space and orbited the Earth 37 times. -
First American Woman in Space
Sally Ride was one of three mission specialistson on the Challenger on mission STS-7. -
Challenger Disaster
The challenger disaster occured when the NASA space shuttle Challenger broke apart 73 seconds into it's flight, killing all seven crew members. -
Galileo Launch
Galileo was an unmanned spacecraft that studied the planet Jupiter and its moons, as well as several other Solar System bodies. -
Hubble Space Telescope Launch
Launched in 1990, it is still active today. It continues to give us more information about space. -
First Tourist in Space
Dennis Tito funded his own space mission, and spent seven days in space. -
Columbia Disaster
The Columbia disaster occured when the space shuttle Columbia disintegrated during reentry, killing all seven crew members. -
First Launch of SpaceShipOne
This suborbital air-launched spaceplane won the $10 million Ansari X Prize and was immediately retired from active service. Its mother ship was named "White Knight". -
New Horizons Launch
New Horizons is an interplanetary space probe that was launched as a part of NASA's New Frontiers program. The spacecraft was launched to study the Pluto system and, in its secondary mission, the Kuiper belt. -
First Chinese Space Walk
Zhai Zhigang and Liu Boming caried out this mission, which lasted three days. -
Last Space Shuttle Launch
Christopher Ferguson, Douglas Hurley, Sandra Magnus, and Rex Walheim flew Atlantis into space to perform experiments. -
Curiosity Mars Landing
Curiosity is a car-sized robotic rover exploring Mars on a NASA mission. It's goal is to find out basic information on Mars. -
New Horizons Reaches Pluto
