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The search for a small bushy-tailed monkey fired into space in a Jupiter rocket has been stopped after being too long.
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The first US manned orbital flight at an orbit 100-162 miles from the Earth.-
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Two American astronauts have come down safely in the Atlantic after setting a space endurance record.
Charles Conrad, 35, and Gordon Cooper, 38, spent just eight days orbiting the earth in their space ship Gemini V. -
Two US astronauts aboard Apollo 10 arrived back to safety of their mother ship after their lunar module came to within eight nautical miles of the Moon's surface.
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The Apollo 11 space rocket took off successfully from Cape Kennedy, Florida, at the start of the first attempt to land a man on the Moon.
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Dr Edward Gibson, Lieutenant Colonel Gerald Carr and Lieutenant Colonel William Pogue proved mankind can live in space for a long period.
They spent 85 days in the American space station, Skylab, which orbits the Earth at 270 miles high. -
Russian consultant Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space, making a 108 minute orbital flight in his Vostok 1 spacecraft.
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The space shuttle blasted off from Cape Canaveral after a 90-minute delay due to unsuitable weather conditions.
Half a million people in the streets around the Kennedy Space Center watched the take-off. -
American John Glenn, the world's oldest astronaut, landed back on Earth after a nine-day mission in space.
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China's first astronout to go up into space, became a hero overnight.
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Scientists failed to make contact with the British-built Mars probe, Beagle 2, which should have landed on the planet that day.
