Space Timeline

By SophieF

  • Sputnik 1

    Sputnik 1
    1957: Sputnik the first artificial satellite is launched. It is 184 pounds, and was launched by the Soviet Union.
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    Space Timeline

  • First Person in Space

    First Person in Space
    961: The first person in space is Yuri Gagarin. Just in case he was to act weird in space the buttons on the spaceship were locked.

  • First man to orbit around Earth

    First man to orbit around Earth
    1962: John Glenn orbits the Earth and becomes the first human to do so. He went around the Earth three times.

  • First women to go to space

    First women to go to space
    1963: Valentina Tereshkova is the first women to go to space. She is there for three days all by herself.

  • The first person to take a walk in space

    The first person to take a walk in space
    1965: Alexei Leonov becomes the first person to take a walk in space.
    The walk is ten minutes long, he comes in Voshkod 2.

  • Apollo 11 is destroyed

    Apollo 11 is destroyed
    1967: Apollo 11 is destroyed by a fire killing all the astronauts inside of it. This becomes the first death in space.

  • First man to walk on the moon

    First man to walk on the moon
    1969: Neil Armstrong walks on the moon. He becomes the first person to walk on the moon. Many people watched him walk on the moon on TV.

  • A tank of oxygen explodes in space

    A tank of oxygen explodes in space
    1970: A tank of oxygen bursts in space on Apollo 13. Everybody onboard is okay and they head back to Earth.

  • Salyut one orbits Earth

    Salyut one orbits Earth
    1971: The first spaceship to circle around Earth is Salyut 1. The crew died when they went back to space after this.

  • First pictures of another plant

    First pictures of another plant
    1976: The first pictures of Mars are taken by a space probe. It shows the outside of mars.

  • First reusable space craft

    First reusable space craft
    1981: Columbia becomes the first reusable space craft. It goes into space as a rocket and come out of space as an airplane.

  • First women in space

    First women in space
    1981: The first American women in space is Sally Ride. She was part of the seventh space craft.

  • First woman to walk in space

    First woman to walk in space
    1984: The first woman to walk in space is Svetlana Savitskaya. Her partner was Vladimir Dzhanibekov.

  • Challenger explodes

    Challenger explodes
    1986: The spacecraft Challenger explodes. This explosion kills Christa McAuliffe, the first teacher in space, and many others are killed.

  • First telescope in space

    First telescope in space
    1990: The Hubble telescope is brought to space. It becomes the first telescope that is in space.

  • Longest number of days in space

    Longest number of days in space
    1996: Shannon Lucid stays in space for 223 days. She breaks the record for the number of days in space.

  • First robot in space

    First robot in space
    1997: Sojourner observed Mars; this was the first robot to go on another planet. Sojourner takes lots of pictures of Mars.

  • Oldest person in space

    Oldest person in space
    1998: The first old person to go to space became John Glenn. He also studied in space and how riding in the spacecraft and going to space effected older people.

  • First chinese man to go to space

    First chinese man to go to space
    2003: The first Chinese man to go to space becomes Yang Liwei. China becomes the third country to go to space.

  • First space craft to orbit another pkanet

    First space craft to orbit another pkanet
    2004: Cassini Huygens circles around Saturn. Cassini Huygens is the first spacecraft to circle Saturn.