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Sputnik 1
Sputnik 1 is a Russian satellite sent to space on october 4, 1957.
The purpose of Sputnik 1 was to learn more about the amosphere in space. Sputnik 1 burned up on january 4, 1958. -
Explorer 1
Explorer 1 is The United States first satellite. launched on january 31, 1958 as part of its participation in the International Geophysical Year. -
Mercury Freedom 7
Mercury-Redstone 3, or Freedom 7 was the first United States human spaceflight, on 5 May 1961, piloted by astronaut Alan Shepard. It was the first manned flight of Project Mercury, the objective of which was to put an astronaut into orbit around the Earth and return him safely. Shepard named his capsule Freedom 7. -
Gemini 3
Gemini 3 was the first manned mission in NASA's Gemini program, the second American manned space program. On March 23, 1965, the spacecraft, nicknamed Molly Brown, performed the seventh manned US spaceflight, and the 17th manned spaceflight. It was also the final manned flight controlled from Cape Canaveral, The mission's primary goal was to test the new, maneuverable Gemini spacecraft. -
Apollo 11
Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that landed the first humans on the Moon, Americans Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin, on July 20, 1969. Armstrong became the first to step onto the lunar surface six hours later on July 21. Armstrong spent about two and a half hours outside the spacecraft, Aldrin slightly less, and together they collected 47.5 pounds of lunar material for return to Earth. -
Voyager 1
launched by NASA on September 5, 1977 to study the outer Solar System. On28 April 2014, the spacecraft communicates with the Deep Space Network to receive routine commands and return data. -
Columbia space shuttle
Columbia space shuttle was the first spaceworthy Space Shuttle in NASA's orbital fleet. First launched on the STS-1 mission, the first of the Space Shuttle program, it completed 27 missions before disintegrating during re-entry on February 1, 2003 near the end of its 28th mission, STS-107, resulting in the deaths of all crew members aboard. Construction began on Columbia in 1975 at Rockwell International's, Columbia was launched on March 25, 1979 -
Mars pathfinder
Launched on December 4, 1996 by NASA aboard a Delta II booster a month after the Mars Global Surveyor was launched, it landed on July 4, 1997 on Mars's Ares Vallis, in a region called Chryse Planitia in the Oxia Palus quadrangle. The lander then opened, exposing the rover which conducted many experiments on the Martian surface. -
International space station
The International Space Station (ISS) is a space station, or a habitable artificial satellite in low Earth orbit. It is a modular structure whose first component was launched in 1998. Now the largest artificial body in orbit, it can often be seen at the appropriate time with the naked eye from Earth -
Spirit and Opportunity
On January 21, 2004, the Deep Space Network lost contact with Spirit, for reasons originally thought to be related to a thunderstorm over Australia.The objective was to search for and characterize a variety of rocks and soils that hold clues to past water activity. -
Kepler
Kepler is a space observatory launched by NASA to discover Earth-like planets orbiting other stars. The spacecraft, named after the Renaissance astronomer Johannes Kepler, was launched on March 7, 2009. Designed to survey a portion of our region of the Milky Way to discover dozens of Earth-size extrasolar planets in or near the habitable zone and estimate how many of the billions of stars in our galaxy have such planets -
Viking 1
Viking 1 was the first of two spacecraft sent to Mars as part of NASA's Viking program. It was the first spacecraft to successfully land on Mars and perform its mission and held the record for the longest Mars surface mission of 2307 days. on May 19, 2010 it was launched -
Curiosity
Curiosity was launched from Cape Canaveral on November 26, 2011. The MSL spacecraft and successfully landed on Aeolis Palus in Gale Crater on Mars on August 6, 2012. The rover's goals include: investigation of the Martian climate and geology; assessment of whether the selected field site inside Gale Crater has ever offered environmental conditions favorable for microbial life,
