Timeline of Space Exploration

By Kd21346

  • Telescope

    Telescope
    The First clear telescope photograph of the moon.

  • Animal

    The first animal in space.

  • Pictures

    Pictures
    First pictures of Earth from 65 miles away.

  • Space

    Space
    The Soviet Union launched the first Satellite, Sputnik, into space.

  • Spacecraft

    Spacecraft
    The Soviet spacecraft Sputnik 2 was launched with a dog named Laika on board. Laika didn't survive the voyage.

  • Spacecraft

    Spacecraft
    The Soviet craft Sputnik 5 was launched, carrying the dogs Strelka and Belka. They became the first living beings to survive a trip into space.

  • Apollo 13

    Apollo 13
    Apollo 13 was launched.

  • Probe

    The Soviet Venera 7 became the first probe to land on Venus.

  • Moon

    The Moon Rover was driven on the moon for the first time.

  • Spacecraft

    Spacecraft
    The U.S launched it's first space station, Sklab.

  • Disaster

    An investigation panel found that super-heated air almost certainly seeped through the breach in space shuttle Columbia's left wing and possibly it's wheel compartment during the crafts fiery descent, resulting in the deaths of all several astronauts.

  • Exploration

    NASA's Galileo mission ended a 14-year exploration of the Solar System's largest planet and it's moons with the spacecraft crashing by design into Jupiter at 108,000 mph.

  • Space Shuttle

    Space Shuttle
    Space Shuttle Endeavor and a crew of seven blasted off with teacher- astronaut Barbara Morgan aboard as a crew member. Morgan was the first teacher in space since the Challenge disaster in 1986.

  • Probe Messenger

    Probe Messenger
    The NASA space Probe Messenger skimmed 124 miles above Mercury.

  • NASA

    NASA
    NASA's Dawn spacecraft became the first man made craft to orbit an asteroid.