Space Technology

First Liquid-fueled rocket

Mar 16, 1926

A-4/V-2

May 10, 1946

Its total length is 14m.

SS-6

Jan 12, 1957

Sputnik 1

Oct 4, 1957

First- man made rocket that orbits the earth. Keep in orbit until Jan,4th.

Sputnik 2

Nov 3, 1957

Launched by U.S.S.R. It carries a dog name Laika for 7 days in orbit.

Vanguard TV -3

Dec 6, 1957

Explorer 1

Jan 31, 1958

First U.S satillites in orbit.

Vanguard TV -3bu

Feb 5, 1958

Explorer 2

Mar 5, 1958

Fails to reach orbit, lauched by Jupiter-C rocket

Vanguard I

Mar 17, 1958

Vanguard TV-5

Apr 29, 1958

Sputnik 3

May 15, 1958

It is launched by the U.S.S.R.

Vanguard SLV 1

May 28, 1958

Jupiter C

Jun 15, 1958

Vanguard SLV 2

Jun 26, 1958

NASA formed

Jul 29, 1958

Vanguard SLV 3

Sep 26, 1958

Pioneer 1

Oct 11, 1958

Launched to a height 70,700 miles.

Luna 1

Jan 2, 1959

Launched by U.S.S.R. First made satilite that orbit the moon.

Vanguard II

Feb 17, 1959

Vanguard SLV 4

Apr 14, 1959

Able & Baker

May 28, 1959

Vanguard SLV 6

Jun 22, 1959

Luna 2

Sep 12, 1959

First man-made object ti hit the moon.

Vanguard III

Sep 18, 1959

Luna 3

Oct 3, 1959

Potograph 70% of the moon.

Tiros 1

Apr 1, 1960

Launched by U.S. First sucessful weather satillite

Discoverer XIV launches

Aug 18, 1960

Vostok 1

Apr 12, 1961

Launched by U.S.S.R. Orbits the earth once and carries the first man in space.

Apollo Mission Started

May 25, 1961

Vostok 2

Aug 6, 1961

Launched by U.S.S.R. The first day-long Soviet space flight.

Mercury Friendship 7

Feb 20, 1962

orbits the Earth three times.

Telstar 1

Jul 10, 1962

Vostok 6

Jun 16, 1963

Vostok 6 orbits the earth 48 times and carries the first woman to space.

Syncom 3

Aug 19, 1964

First Space Walk

Mar 18, 1965

First space walk, the duration is 12 min.

First Manned Flight of Gemini Program

Mar 23, 1965

Made three orbits around earth and carries Virgil I. Grissom and John W. Young.

Ranger 9

Mar 24, 1965

Diamant A

May 11, 1965

Edward White II

Jun 3, 1965

space walk from Gemini 4. is 22 minutes

A1

Nov 26, 1965

Launched by France

Atlas-Centaur

May 11, 1966

Apollo 1

Feb 21, 1967

Apollo 1 land-of

Venrea 4

May 13, 1967

Venera 4

Oct 18, 1967

Venera 4 has sends a descent capsule.

Proton Booster

May 11, 1968

Soviet Zond 5

Sep 15, 1968

It was the first spacecraft to orbit the Moon and return.

Apollo 7 阿波羅七號

Oct 11, 1968

Apollo 8

Dec 21, 1968

Neil A. Armstrong

Jul 16, 1969

Apollo 11 landed on moon

Jul 20, 1969

The frist man that step on moon

Mariner 6

Jul 31, 1969

Returns with high-resolution images of the Martian surface.

Ohsumi

Feb 11, 1970

Apollo 13 阿波羅十三號

Apr 11, 1970

阿波羅十三號遇到了一些困難，最後平安了。

Chengzheng 1 CZ-1

Apr 24, 1970

Red East

Apr 24, 1970

Chengzheng 1

May 11, 1970

Luna 17

Nov 17, 1970

Driven by a 5-man team on earth and traveled on the surface for 11 days.

Soviet Venera 7

Dec 15, 1970

Transmit for 23 minutes and the first probe to soft-landing on venus.

Apollo 14

Jan 31, 1971

Apollo 14 is launched by United States and landed on where Apollo 13 had landed on.

practise 1

Mar 3, 1971

Salyut 1 Space Station

Apr 19, 1971

It has come back to Earth at May 28, 1973.

Mariner 9

May 30, 1971

Soyuz 11

Jun 6, 1971

Soyuz 11 carried Cosmonauts G.T. Dobrovolsky, V.N. Volkov, and V.I. Patsayev to Salyut 1

Apollo 15 阿波羅十五號

Jul 30, 1971

Astronauts David Scott and James Irwin drive the first moon rover.

Pioneer 10

Mar 2, 1972

Pioneer 10 is launched on an Atlas/Centaur/TE364-4 towards Jupiter by the U.S.,

Apollo 16

Apr 16, 1972

Pioneer 10

Jul 15, 1972

Pioneer 10

Cignus X-1

Dec 26, 1972

Pioneer 11

Apr 5, 1973

Pioneer 11 is launched on an Atlas/Centaur/TE364-4

Skylab

May 14, 1973

Skylab Workshop is launched by the U.S

Skylab 2

May 25, 1973

First crew to Skylab, Skylab2 are launched

American Mariner 10

Nov 3, 1973

American Mariner 10 is launched

Titan IIIE-centaur

May 11, 1974

SMS-1

May 17, 1974

Soviet Salyut 3

Jun 24, 1974

Soviet Salyut 3, their first military space station, is launched. It remains in orbit until January 1975.

Chengzheng 2

Nov 5, 1974

Helios 1

Dec 10, 1974

Soviet Salyut 3

Dec 28, 1974

Fengbao 1

Jul 26, 1975

Soviet Venera 9 and 10

Oct 30, 1975

October, 1975 - Soviet Venera 9 and 10 send the first pictures of the Venusian surface to Earth.

Chinese First Recoverable Satellite

Nov 26, 1975

space station Salyut 5

Jun 22, 1976

June 22, 1976 - Soviet military space station Salyut 5 is launched, remaining in orbit until August 8, 1977.

Viking 1

Jul 20, 1976

July 20, 1976 - Pictures of the Martian surface are taken by Viking 1, the first U.S. attempt to soft land a spacecraft on another planet.

Viking 2

Sep 3, 1976

September 3, 1976 - Viking 2 lands on Mars on the Plain of Utopia, where it discovered water frost.

Voyagers 1 and 2

Sep 1, 1977

August-September, 1977 - Voyagers 1 and 2 leave Earth to meet with Jupiter in 1979 and Saturn in 1980.

Soviet Salyut 6

Sep 29, 1977

September 29, 1977 - Soviet Salyut 6 space station is launched. Its crews include members from Czechoslovakia, Poland, GDR, Bulgaria, Hungary, Vietnam, Cuba, Mongolia, and Romania.

Pioneer 11

Sep 1, 1979

September 1, 1979 - Pioneer 11 reaches Saturn, flying to within 13,000 miles and taking the first close-up photographs.

STS-1

Apr 12, 1981

April 12, 1981 - The first manned mission of the Space Transportation System (STS-1), Columbia , is launched.

Ariane 3

Jun 19, 1981

June 19, 1981 - The European Space Agency launches its third Ariane rocket.

pratise 2

Sep 19, 1981

Ariane 4

Dec 20, 1981

December 20, 1981 - The ESA launches a fourth Ariane rocket.

Venera 13

Mar 1, 1982

Venera 13 lands on Venus, and provides the first Venusian soil analysis.

Soviet Salyut 7

Apr 19, 1982

April 19, 1982 - Soviet Salyut 7 space station is launched.

Voyager 2

Apr 20, 1982

August, 1982 - Voyager 2 completes its flyby of Saturn.

Soviet Cosmonauts Anatoly N. Berezovoi and Valentin V. Lebedev are launched in Soyuz-T 5 to rendezvous with Salyut 7, the first team to inhabit the space station. They return to Earth in Soyuz-T 7, setting a (then) duration record of 211 days.

May 13, 1982

May 13, 1982 - Soviet Cosmonauts Anatoly N. Berezovoi and Valentin V. Lebedev are launched in Soyuz-T 5 to rendezvous with Salyut 7, the first team to inhabit the space station. They return to Earth in Soyuz-T 7, setting a (then) duration record of 211 days.

Chengzheng 2B

Sep 9, 1982

The space shuttle Columbia's fifth mission

Nov 11, 1982

November 11, 1982 - The space shuttle Columbia's fifth mission, its first operational one, begins, deploying two satellites. Crew: Vance Brand, Robert Overmyer, Joseph Allen, and William Lenoir.

finds new comets, asteroids, galaxies, and a dust ring around the star Vega that may be new planets.

Jan 25, 1983

January-November, 1983 - The Infrared Astronomical Satellite finds new comets, asteroids, galaxies, and a dust ring around the star Vega that may be new planets.

IRAS

Jan 25, 1983

STS-6

Apr 4, 1983

April 4, 1983 - The space shuttle Challenger lifts off for its first mission (STS-6) and has the first American space walk in nine years. Crew: Paul Weitz, Karol Bobko, Donald Peterson, and Story Musgrave.

STS-7

Jun 18, 1983

June 18, 1983 - Sally K. Ride is the first U.S. woman to travel in space, on Challenger mission STS-7.

Columbia

Nov 28, 1983

November 28, 1983 - The space shuttle Columbia carries the ESA Spacelab-1 into orbit (STS-9). Its crew includes Ulf Merbold, A German and first ESA member in space..

Find New Things.

Nov 28, 1983

Humans finds new comets, asteroids, galaxies, and a dust ring around the star Vega.

Chengzheng 3

Jan 29, 1984

STS-41B

Feb 3, 1984

February 3, 1984 - Bruce McCandless takes the first untethered space walk using MMU from the space shuttle Challenger (STS-41B).

Red East 2-2

Apr 8, 1984

Soyuz-T 12

Jul 17, 1984

July 17, 1984 - launch of Soyuz-T 12 carrying Svetlana Savitskaya, who becomes the first woman to walk in space.

STS-41D

Aug 30, 1984

August 30, 1984 - The third space shuttle, Discovery, lifts off on it's maiden voyage (STS-41D). Crew: Henry W. Hartsfield, Michael L. Coats, Richard Mullane, Steven Hawley, Judith A. Resnik, and Charles D. Walker.

Challenger

Oct 5, 1984

October 5, 1984 - launch of space shuttle Challenger mission STS-41G carrying the first crew with two women aboard - Sally Ride and Katherine Sullivan. Sullivan becomes the first American woman to walk in space.

Vega 1& 2

Dec 27, 1984

December, 1984 - Soviet/International Vega 1 & 2 are launched, dropping probes into Venus' atmosphere before continuing to Halley's Comet.

Sakigake probe

Jan 8, 1985

January 8, 1985 - The Sakigake probe is launched by Japan's Institute of Space and Aeronautical Science, becoming the first interplanetary probe as it rendezvous with Halley's Comet.

STS-51B

Apr 29, 1985

April 29, 1985 - The Challenger carries the ESA Spacelab-3 into orbit (STS-51B).

The European Space Agency launches the Giotto spacecraft from an Ariane rocket.

Jul 2, 1985

July 2, 1985 - The European Space Agency launches the Giotto spacecraft from an Ariane rocket. It encounters Halley's Comet in 1986, and Comet P/Grigg-Skjellerup in 1992.

Giotto

Jul 2, 1985

STS-51J

Oct 3, 1985

October 3, 1985 - The fourth space shuttle Atlantis takes off on its first mission (STS-51J). Crew: Karol J. Bobko, Ronald J. Grabe, Robert A. Stewart, David C. Hilmers, and William A. Pailes.

Spacelab D1

Oct 8, 1985

October 1985 - Spacelab D1, the first joint German/ESA mission, is flown. Its crew consists of two German DARA astronauts, and Danish Wubbo Ockels of the ESA.

Voyager 2

Jan 8, 1986

January, 1986 - Voyager 2 flies past Uranus.

STS-51L

Jan 28, 1986

January 28, 1986 - The space shuttle Challenger explodes shortly after liftoff of mission STS-51L.

Red East 2

Feb 1, 1986

Soviet space station Mir

Feb 20, 1986

February 20, 1986 - The core unit of Soviet space station Mir is launched.

Astronomers discover an invisible gravity source that splits a quasar's light.

Mar 16, 1986

March, 1986 - Astronomers discover an invisible gravity source that splits a quasar's light.

March, 1986 - Spacecraft from the U.S.S.R, Japan, and Western Europe fly by Halley's Comet on it's 30th recorded appearance.

Mar 24, 1986

March, 1986 - Spacecraft from the U.S.S.R, Japan, and Western Europe fly by Halley's Comet on it's 30th recorded appearance.

Astronomers find that our galaxy is smaller than they thought and the Sun is 23,000 light-years from it's center.

Apr 11, 1986

April, 1986 - Astronomers find that our galaxy is smaller than they thought and the Sun is 23,000 light-years from it's center.

Supernova

Feb 25, 1987

February 25, 1987 - Supernova 1987A blazes into view.

Soyuz-TM 2

Dec 20, 1987

December 1987 - Cosmonaut Yuri V. Romanenko returns from space station Mir, having arrived there from Soyuz-TM 2, and sets a (then) space endurance record of 326 days.

Vladimir TITOV

Dec 21, 1987

Chengzheng 4

Sep 6, 1988

Fengyun 1

Nov 6, 1988

STS-30

May 4, 1989

May 4, 1989 - Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched (STS-30), deploying the spacecraft Magellan.

Phobos 2

Jul 12, 1989

July 12, 1989 - Soviet/International Phobos 2 launched, which orbits Mars to study its surface, atmosphere and magnetic field.

STS-34

Oct 18, 1989

October 18, 1989 - U.S. launches the Galileo spacecraft from Shuttle Atlantis flight STS-34, which took infrared images of Venus, and images of the asteroid Ida, before continuing to Jupiter.

Galileo

Oct 18, 1989

Pegasus

Apr 5, 1990

April 5, 1990 - U.S. Pegasus rocket is deployed from a B-52 bomber, and launched the Pegsat satellite in the first demonstration of the Pegasus launch vehicle.

Asiasat 1

Apr 7, 1990

Hubble Space Telescope

Apr 24, 1990

STS-31 - HST

Apr 24, 1990

April 24, 1990 - Space Shuttle Discovery launches on STS-31, deploying the Edwin P. Hubble Space Telescope (HST) astronomical observatory.

BADR-A

Jul 6, 1990

Chengzheng 2E

Jul 16, 1990

Magellan

Aug 8, 1990

August, 1990 - U.S. spacecraft Magellan arrives at Venus, where for the next year it took radar images of the surface.

STS-41.

Oct 6, 1990

October 6, 1990 - Space Shuttle Discovery launches the Ulysses spacecraft with two upper stages, on mission STS-41. Ulysses flies toward Jupiter, to be slingshot towards the sun, to obtain data from high solar latitudes.

Salyut 7

Feb 7, 1991

February 7, 1991 - Salyut 7 falls from orbit and burns up over Argentina.

Atlantis

Apr 5, 1991

April 5, 1991 - Space Shuttle Atlantis carries the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory into orbit. This new space telescope, built by NASA, was the first to provide an all-sky continuous survey in the gamma-ray and X-ray spectra.

STS-40

Jun 5, 1991

June 5, 1991 - Shuttle Columbia carries the Spacelab SLS-1 into orbit, to conduct investigations into the effects of weightlessness on humans. (STS-40)

Ulysses

Feb 8, 1992

February 8, 1992 - Spacecraft Ulysses flies around Jupiter, on its way to the sun.

STS-49

May 2, 1992

May 2, 1992 - Space Shuttle Endeavour lifts off on its first mission (STS-49), repairing the Intelsat VI satellite. Crew: Daniel C. Brandenstein, Kevin P. Chilton, Richard J. Hieb, Bruce E. Melnick, Pierre J. Thout, Kathryn C. Thornton, and Thomas D. Akers.

STS-49

May 2, 1992

May 2, 1992 - Space Shuttle Endeavour lifts off on its first mission (STS-49), repairing the Intelsat VI satellite. Crew: Daniel C. Brandenstein, Kevin P. Chilton, Richard J. Hieb, Bruce E. Melnick, Pierre J. Thout, Kathryn C. Thornton, and Thomas D. Akers.

長江二號

Aug 9, 1992

Optus B1

Aug 13, 1992

Freja

Oct 6, 1992

A Sweden satellite

STS-61

Dec 2, 1993

December 2, 1993 - Space Shuttle Endeavour launches on STS-61, making the first on-orbit service of the Hubble Space Telescope (HST).

Clementine

Jan 5, 1994

January 25, 1994 - U.S. launches Clementine, a new DOD satellite that performs a lunar mapping mission using advanced ballistic missile defense technologies. It suffers a malfunction on May 10, 1994, ending its mission.

Chengzheng 3A

Feb 8, 1994

Practise 1

Feb 8, 1994

STS-60

Feb 10, 1994

February, 1994 - A Russian Cosmonaut, Sergei Krikalev, flies on board the U.S. space shuttle Discovery for the first time (STS-60).

Apstar 1

Jul 21, 1994

Ulysses

Sep 13, 1994

September 13, 1994 - Spacecraft Ulysses reaches a maximum Southern latitude of 80.2 degrees at the sun, proceeding towards the Northern latitudes, maintaining an orbital period of six years.

Magellan

Oct 12, 1994

October 12, 1994 - Spacecraft Magellan enters the atmosphere of Venus, burning up following the completion of its mapping mission.

XMI1

Dec 9, 1994

December 9, 1994 - Asteroid XM1 passes within 65,000 miles of Earth.

STS-63

Feb 6, 1995

February 6, 1995 - Space shuttle Discovery maneuvers to within 37 feet of Russian space station Mir, in preparation for a shuttle-Mir docking (STS-63). This is the first shuttle mission to be flown by a female pilot.

Cosmonaut Valeriy Polyakov returns to Earth

Mar 22, 1995

March 22, 1995 - Cosmonaut Valeriy Polyakov returns to Earth after a 438-day mission aboard Russian space station Mir, setting a new space endurance record.

STS-71

Jun 26, 1995

June 26, 1995 - Space Shuttle Atlantis rendezvous with Russian space station Mir during a ten-day mission on STS-71. Cosmonauts are transferred to and from Atlantis, and Astronaut Norman Thagard is returned from Mir, having arrived on Soyuz-TM 21, and making a new American space endurance record of 115 days.

Pioneer 11

Sep 10, 1995

September 1995 - Pioneer 11 ceases making scientific observations, its power source nearly depleted.

STS-74

Nov 12, 1995

November 12, 1995 - Space Shuttle Atlantis lifts off on mission STS-74, making the second docking with Russian space station Mir. It delivers two solar arrays, and a docking module for future Shuttle dockings.

Asiasat 2

Nov 28, 1995

Echostar 1

Dec 28, 1995

Thomas Reiter becomes the first European Space Agency astronaut

Feb 8, 1996

February 8, 1996 - Thomas Reiter becomes the first European Space Agency astronaut to make two spacewalks (both from the Russian Mir space station). His previous spacewalk was on October 21, 1995, and lasted 5 hours 11 minutes.

長江三號

Feb 14, 1996

Delta II-7925-8 rocket.

Feb 17, 1996

February 17, 1996 - NASA launches the first in the Discovery series of spacecraft, the Near-Earth Asteroid Rendezvous (NEAR) spacecraft, aboard a Delta II-7925-8 rocket.

STS-76

Mar 22, 1996

March 22, 1996 - Space Shuttle Atlantis lifts off on STS-76, performing the third docking with Space Station Mir. Astronaut Shannon Lucid was left on Mir, becoming the first female Astronaut to crew a Space Station.

STS-79

Sep 26, 1996

September 26, 1996 - Space Shuttle Atlantis touches down after mission STS-79. It brings back Shannon Lucid, who becomes the longest US astronaut in space, and the longest female astronaut in space.

Sojourner Rover

Dec 4, 1996

Space Shuttle Atlantis

Jan 12, 1997

Lifts of for the fifth docking. Jerry Linenger replace John Blaha as the American crew member.

Soyuz TM25

Feb 10, 1997

Soyuz TM25 lifts off to dock with the Mir space station.

Space Shuttle Discovery

Feb 11, 1997

Space Shuttle Discovery lifts off on the second maintenance mission for the Hubble Space Telescope

After 25 years of operation, routine telemetry and ground control with Pioneer 10 is terminated.

Mar 31, 1997

Space Shuttle Columbia

Apr 4, 1997

Space Shuttle Columbia lifts off for the shortest shuttle flight in 12 years (four days).

Red East 3

May 11, 1997

Space Shuttle Atlantis

May 17, 1997

Space Shuttle Atlantis performs its sixth docking with Mir. Jerry Linenger is relieved by Michael Foale as the American crewmember on Mir. Atlantis returned to Earth on May 24th and Mir continued with its troubles

Fengyun 2

Jun 10, 1997

Space Shuttle Columbia

Jul 1, 1997

Space Shuttle Columbia lifts off again to complete the flight aborted in April.

Mars Pathfinder

Jul 4, 1997

Mars Pathfinder becomes the first probe to successfully land on Mars since Viking 2 in 1976.

Space Shuttle Discovery

Aug 7, 1997

Space Shuttle Discovery lifts off for a 12-day mission to deploy and retrieve the Crista-Spas 2 satellite, which studied the Earth's middle atmosphere.

Mabuhay

Aug 19, 1997

Chengzheng 2C

Sep 1, 1997

Iridium

Sep 1, 1997

Space Shuttle Atlantis

Sep 27, 1997

Space Shuttle Atlantis performs its seventh docking with Mir to support the repair & upgrade process, and bringing additional experiments for the space station.

Apstar 2R

Oct 16, 1997

Space Shuttle Columbia

Nov 19, 1997

Space Shuttle Columbia lifts off with three American astronauts, one Japanese, and the first Ukrainian astronaut, Leonid Kadenyuk.

First NASA mission to the Moon in 25 years

Jan 7, 1998

Lunar Prospector is the first NASA mission to the Moon in 25 years, and the first dedicated to lunar research since Apollo 17 in 1972. The spacecraft is placed in lunar orbit to make a careful spectroscopic analysis of the entire lunar surface, including its North and South poles, and soon confirms what the Department of Defense Clementine mission had found in 1994 - that trapped within some of the craters at the Moon's two poles is about 6.6 trillion tons of permanently frozen

Space Shuttle Endeavour

Jan 22, 1998

Space Shuttle Endeavour lifts off to rendezvous with Mir, the eight U.S.

Space Shuttle Columbia

Apr 17, 1998

Space Shuttle Columbia lifts off on a 16-day mission, its 25th

Chinastar 1

May 30, 1998

Space Shuttle Discovery

Jun 2, 1998

Space Shuttle Discovery lifts off on a 10-day mission, its 24th and the last shuttle docking with Mir.

Sinosat 1

Jul 18, 1998

Space Shuttle Discovery 發現號

Oct 29, 1998

Space Shuttle Discovery lifts off with John Glenn aboard, first American to orbit Earth and at 77, the oldest man to fly in space.

Space Shuttle Endeavour

Dec 4, 1998

Space Shuttle Endeavour lifts off on its thirteenth space flight, with the International Space Station's second module, Unity

Chengzheng 4B

May 10, 1999

Practise 5

May 10, 1999

Space Shuttle Discovery

May 27, 1999

Space Shuttle Discovery lifts off for the International Space Station.

Space Shuttle Columbia

Jul 23, 1999

Space Shuttle Columbia lifts off, carrying the Chandra X-Ray Observatory into orbit.

SACI 1

Oct 14, 1999

CBERS 1

Oct 14, 1999

Chengzheng 2F

Nov 19, 1999

Shengzhou 1

Nov 19, 1999

Space Shuttle Endeavour

Feb 11, 2000

Space Shuttle Endeavour lifts off to carry out the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission, cosponsored by NASA and the National Imagery and Mapping Agency

Space Shuttle Atlantis

May 19, 2000

Space Shuttle Atlantis lifts off for the International Space Station for maintenance on the crane and a faulty antenna, installation of a Russian boom arm, handrails and upgrades to the ventilation system, and delivery of new batteries, supplies and equipment.

American Mariner 10

Sep 8, 2000

Space Shuttle Atlantis lifts off on a 12-day mission to outfit the ISS, completing the installation of the Zvezda module.

Space Shuttle Discovery

Oct 11, 2000

Space Shuttle Discovery lifts off on a 14-day mission to install the Z1 segment, the first piece of the space station truss, and a third docking port (PMA-3) for the Unity adapter

Space Shuttle Atlantis

Feb 7, 2001

Space Shuttle Atlantis lifts off for the ISS, carrying the U.S.'s Destiny laboratory module.

Space Shuttle Discovery

Mar 8, 2001

Space Shuttle Discovery is launched on a 14-day ISS construction mission.

Space Shuttle Endeavour

Apr 19, 2001

Space Shuttle Endeavour lifts off for the ISS on a construction mission. The crew will install the mobile robotic arm on the station (Canadarm 2) and supply the Destiny laboratory module with new experiments, using the Rafaello logistics module.

Space Shuttle Atlantis

Jul 12, 2001

Space Shuttle Atlantis lifts off in the pre-dawn darkness for the ISS with the Joint Airlock which will enable space walks to be performed directly from the space station itself .

Space Shuttle Discovery

Aug 10, 2001

Space Shuttle Discovery lifts off for the ISS with the Leonardo laboratory module and SimpleSat, an experimental low-cost astronomical telescope.

Deep space 1

Sep 22, 2001

Deep Space 1 successfully completes its flyby of comet 19P/Borrelly

Galileo

Oct 16, 2001

Galileo completes another flyby of Jupiter's moon Io, passing only 181 km from Io's south polar region.

Space Shuttle Endeavour

Dec 5, 2001

Space Shuttle Endeavour is launched carrying the Raffaello logistics module back to the ISS with new supplies

Tiangong 1

Sep 29, 2011

Space Shuttle Columbia lifts off on its 21st space flight

Mar 10, 2012

November 19, 1996 - Space Shuttle Columbia lifts off on its 21st space flight, setting a new shuttle in-space endurance record of almost 18 days. This flight carries Story Musgrave, at that time the oldest man to fly in space at 61 years of age.

The Last Flight for Discovery

Apr 17, 2012

It the last flight for the Discovery and it attached to a modified NASA747aircraft.
South China Post

Soviet Venera 15

May 8, 2012

October 10, 1983 - Soviet Venera 15 returns the first high-resolution images of the Venus polar area, and compiled a thermal map of most of the northern hemisphere.

Salyut 7

May 8, 2012

October, 1984 - Salyut 7's cosmonauts L. D. Kizim, V. A. Solovyov, and O. Y. Atkov set a (then) 237-day record in space. They arrive at Salyut 7 in Soyuz-T 10 and depart in Soyuz-T 11

SpaceX Falcon 9

May 22, 2012