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  • Soviet Union launches Sputnik I

  • United States launches Explorer I from Cape Canaveral in Florida

  • NASA is formed after Congress passes the National Aeronautics and Space Act.

  • Launch of Apollo 11

  • U.S. President John F. Kennedy announces the goal of sending astronauts to the moon before the end of the decade.

  • First test flight of the Saturn V rocket, which would carry dozens of spacecraft into space in the years to come

  • --Astronauts Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin and Neil Armstrong become the first men to walk on the moon.

  • United States launches its first experimental space station, the Skylab

  • Apollo-Soyuz Test Project is the first international manned space flight to test out cooperated space rescue and docking.

  • Launch of Viking 1

  • Launch of Voyager 2

  • Sally Ride becomes first American woman in space with launch of shuttle mission STS-7 aboard the space shuttle Challenger.

  • First major catastrophe for NASA

  • Mir space station launches

  • --Launch of Mars Pathfinder

  • Pathfinder lands on Mars

  • First piece of the International Space Station is launched

  • Launch of Genesis

  • Mars Exploration Rovers Spirit and Opportunity launch

  • Phoenix lander launches on its way to explore the northern pole of Mars.