Space Timeline

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  • Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket

    Goddard launches the first liquid-fueled rocket

  • Group for the Study of Reactive Motion (GIRD) launches the first Soviet liquid-fueled rocket

  • First vehicle to cross the Kármán line (100 km/~62 mi above the Earth's surface) and thereby enter outer space

  • First space research flight (cosmic radiation experiments)

  • First U.S.-designed rocket to reach edge of space (80 km (49 mi)

  • First pictures of earth from 105 km (65 mi)

    First pictures of earth from 105 km (65 mi)

  • First animals in space (fruit flies)

  • First intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)

  • First artificial satellite, first signals from space

  • First animal in orbit (the dog Laika)

  • USA’s first artificial satellite

  • First human-made object to orbit the Sun (USSR)

  • First impact into another planet or moon (theMoon) (USSR)

  • First manned spaceflight and first manned orbitalflight (Yuri Gagarin) (USSR)

  • USA’s first spaceflight with humans (Alan Shepherd) (USA)

  • USA’s first orbital flight with humans (JohnGlenn) (USA)

  • First planetary flyby (Venus) (USA)

    First planetary flyby (Venus) (USA)

  • First woman in space, first woman in orbit (Valentina Tereshkova)

    First woman in space, first woman in orbit (Valentina Tereshkova)

  • First extra-vehicular activity ("spacewalk") (Aleksei Leonov)

  • First soft landing on another planet or moon (the Moon), first photos from another world

  • First impact into another planet (Venus)

  • First artificial satellite around another world (the Moon)

  • USA's first soft landing on the Moon, USA's first photos from the Moon

  • First humans to orbit another world (the Moon) (James Lovell, Frank Borman, Bill Anders)

  • First humans on the Moon (Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin)

    First humans on the Moon (Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin)

  • First Reusable manned spacecraft (orbital)

  • First Venus soil samples & sound recording of another world

  • First spacecraft beyond the orbit of Neptune (first spacecraft to pass beyond all Solar System planets)

    First spacecraft beyond the orbit of Neptune (first spacecraft to pass beyond all Solar System planets)

  • First untethered spacewalk, Bruce McCandless II

  • First polar orbit around the Sun

  • First mission into the atmosphere of a gas giant (Jupiter)

  • First landing on an asteroid

    First landing on an asteroid

  • Kepler Mission is launched, first space telescope designated to search for Earth-like exoplanets

    Kepler Mission is launched, first space telescope designated to search for Earth-like exoplanets

  • First sample return from asteroid

  • Radio orbital observatory. Largest space observatory ever launched.