Spaceships

Sputnik 1 (USSR)

Oct 4, 1957

First artificial satellite to orbit Earth.

Luna 2 (USSR)

Sep 14, 1959

First spacecraft to reach the Moon.

Vostok 1 (USSR)

Apr 12, 1961

Voskhod 2 (USSR)

Mar 18, 1965

Aleksey Leonov performs the first spacewalk.

Apollo 11

Jul 20, 1969

USA's Apollo 11 lands on the Moon; Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walk on the lunar surface.

USSR launches Salyut 1

Apr 19, 1971

The first space station.

Apollo-Soyuz Test Project

Jul 17, 1975

First joint U.S.-Soviet space mission

International Space Station (ISS)

Nov 20, 1998

Construction begins on the first permanent, multinational space laboratory.

Space Shuttle Discovery

May 29, 1999

Space Shuttle Discovery docks with the International Space Station (ISS).

Huygens Probe (ESA/NASA)

Jan 14, 2005

First landing on Saturn’s moon Titan.

New Horizons (USA)

Jul 14, 2015

First close flyby and detailed study of Pluto.

Falcon 9

Dec 21, 2015

SpaceX achieves the first successful vertical landing of a reusable rocket booster.