spacetravel By 180068 Oct 4, 1957 Sputnik 1 Period: Nov 13, 1957 to Dec 31, 2006 spacetravel Nov 13, 1958 Explorer 1 goes into orbit Apr 1, 1960 Tiros 1 the first sucsesful weather satellite is launched Feb 20, 1962 Mercury Friendship 7 lifts off with John Glenn jr. Sep 15, 1968 SovietZond5 reuturns from orbit around the moon Sep 3, 1976 Viking 2 lands on Mars Mar 1, 1982 Venera 13 lands on Venus and does a venusian soil analysis Jan 1, 1986 Voyager2 flies past Uranus Feb 8, 1992 spacecraft Ulysses flies around Jupiter on it's way to the sun Jul 23, 1999 space shuttle Coulumbia lifts off Jan 19, 2006 mission New Horrizon is put into effect