Space Timeline Research Project

Space Timeline Research Project Timespan

Period: Oct 1, 1957 to Dec 31, 2013

Sputnik 1 is launched

Oct 4, 1957

Pioneer Program is started

Jan 1, 1958

Mercury is 'born'

Oct 7, 1958

Mercury lasted 5 years

Apollo Project starts

Jan 1, 1961

John F. Kennedy proposed that we make a moon landing in the next decade

May 25, 1961

We ended up doing it in 8 years

Mariner Program is created

Jan 1, 1962

Mariner 1 fails

Jul 22, 1962

Gemini Program begins

Jan 1, 1964

Gemini Program ends

Jan 1, 1966

First manned flight for the Apollo Program

Jan 1, 1968

First Moon Walk Through the Apollo Program

Jul 20, 1969

Buzz Aldrin and Neil Armstrong were the men who walked on the moon then

Skylab Space Station is launched

Aug 8, 1969

Apollo Project ends

Jan 1, 1972

First Interplanetary Spacecraft reaches Jupiter - Pioneer Program

Jan 1, 1972

Mariner 10 is launched

Nov 3, 1973

Viking 1 took its first picture

Jul 20, 1976

Viking 2 lands

Sep 3, 1976

Viking 1 failed

Nov 13, 1976

American congress approves funding for the Large Space Telescope

Jan 1, 1977

Galileo Spacecraft is created

Jan 1, 1977

Created in the Jet Propulsion Laboratory

Second Voyager Probe takes off

Aug 20, 1977

First Voyager Probe takes off

Sep 5, 1977

Skylab Space Station is deorbited

Jul 11, 1979

Viking 2 loses communication

Apr 11, 1980

Space Shuttle Columbia is launched

Apr 12, 1981

Space Shuttle Discovery is launched

Aug 30, 1984

Hubble is completed

Jan 1, 1985

Challenger disaster puts all Shuttle flights on hold. Launch of Hubble delayed

Jan 1, 1986

Mir Space Station is launched

Feb 20, 1986

Space Shuttle Challenger is launched

Jul 28, 1986

Gailileo Spacecraft is launched

Oct 18, 1989

Launched from the Kennedy Space Center

Launch: Shuttle Discovery (STS-31) launched on 24 April 1990. Hubble deployed on 25 April 1990.

Jan 1, 1990

Probe descends through Jupiters upper atmosphere from Galileo Spacecraft

Dec 7, 1995

NEAR Shoemaker is launched

Feb 17, 1996

First US Rover, Sojourner, lands on Mars

Jul 4, 1997

Casini Space Mission is launched

Oct 15, 1997

NEAR Shoemaker lands on astroid

Feb 12, 2001

NEAR Shoemaker mission ends

Feb 28, 2001

Genesis Spacecraft is launched

Aug 8, 2001

Collected samples about solar dust for about 850 days

Rover, Mer B, lands on Mars

Jun 10, 2003

Mars Rover, Mer, lands on Mars

Jul 7, 2003

Hubble makes its millionth observation

Jan 1, 2011

This is the latest interaction or big event that has happened to the hubble or that is important

Space Shuttle Discovery comes has its latest mission

Mar 9, 2011

Space Shuttle Atlantis is launched

Jul 21, 2011