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Was the first artificial satellite to be put in into Earth's orbit. It was launched into a elliptical low Earth orbit by the soviet Union.
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was the second spacecraft launched into Earth's orbit , and was the first to carry a living animal. A dog named Laika
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Was the first earth satellite of the United States , Launched as a part of its participation in the International Geophyisical Year
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Was to be a repeat of the Explorer 1 but due to faliure with the rocket it never left Earths orbit.
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The Soviet space probe Luna 3 of 1959 (of the E-3 series) was the third space probe to be sent to the neighborhood of the Moon, and this mission was an early feat in the spaceborne exploration of outer space.
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Project Gemini was the second human spaceflight program of NASA, the civilian space agency of the United States government. Project Gemini was conducted between Projects Mercury and Apollo.
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John Herschel Glenn, Jr. (born July 18, 1921) is a former United States Marine Corps pilot, astronaut and United States senator who was the first American to orbit the Earth and third American in space. Glenn was a Marine Corps fighter pilot before joining NASA's Mercury program as a member of NASA's original astronaut group.
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Valentina Tereshkova was the first Russian women in space on the Vostok 6 spacecraft.
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On Friday, November 22, 1963, in Dealey Plaza, Dallas, Texas. Kennedy was fatally shot while traveling with his wife Jacqueline, Texas governor John Connally, and the latter's wife, Nellie, in a Presidential motorcade
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Series probes were developed by the Soviet Union between 1961 and 1984 to gather data from Venus.
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Was a Soviet pilot and cosmonaut. He was the first human being to journey into outer space, when his Vostok spacecraft completed an orbit of the Earth on April 12, 1961.On 27 March 1968, on a routine training flight from Chkalovsky Air Base, he and flight instructor Vladimir Seryogin died in a MiG-15UTI crash near the town of Kirzhach
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Zond 5 was launched from a Tyazheliy Sputnik in Earth parking orbit to make scientific probes during a lunar flyby and to return to Earth. On September 18, 1968, the spacecraft flew around the Moon.
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Was launched on January 14, 1969. On board was cosmonaut Vladimir Shatalov on his first flight. The aim of the mission was to dock with Soyuz 5, transfer two crew members from that spacecraft, and return to Earth
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Was the First Space flight that landed the first humans on the moon. The mission was considered a major accomplishment in Space Travel. Armstrong there said his Famous quote "One small step for man, one giant leap for man kind."
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was the eleventh and final manned mission in the American Apollo space flight program with a crew of three men. Commander Eugene Cernan , Pilot Ronald Evans , and Lunar Pilot Harrison Smith.
