timeline

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  • atellite, Sputnik I, is launched

    First artificial satellite, Sputnik I, is launched by Soviet Union.

  • U.S. launches first American astronaut

    U.S. launches first American astronaut, Alan Shepard Jr., into space, on a 15-minute, 22-second suborbital flight.

  • merican space objective

    President Kennedy declares the American space objective to put a man on the moon and return him safely by the end of the decade.

  • the first woman in space

    Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova, the first woman in space, completes 48 orbits.

  • Astronauts Gus Grissom

    Astronauts Gus Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee die when a fire sweeps the Apollo I command module during a ground test at Kennedy Space Center.

  • First manned spacecraft

    First manned spacecraft to orbit moon, Apollo 8, comes within 70 miles of lunar surface.

  • ,Apollo 11

    ,Apollo 11 astronauts Neil Armstrong and Edwin E. "Buzz" Aldrin, the first men to land on the moon.

  • Skylab

    Skylab I, first U.S. orbiting laboratory, launched

  • first untethered spacewalk

    Astronaut Bruce McCandless performs man's first untethered spacewalk with a Manned Maneuvering Unit off the Challenger space shuttle.

  • Challenger shuttle explodes

    Challenger shuttle explodes 73 seconds after launch, killing its crew of seven.

  • first shuttle to dock with the international space station,

    Discovery becomes first shuttle to dock with the international space station, a multinational, permanent, orbiting research laboratory.

  • American and Russian crew begins living aboard the international space station.

    An American and Russian crew begins living aboard the international space station.

  • broke apart over Texas,

    huttle Columbia broke apart over Texas, 16 minutes before it was supposed to land in Florida.

  • Final space shuttle mission

    Final space shuttle mission ends when Atlantis arrives at Kennedy Space Center.