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First sattilite launched
Sputnik 1, launched. It was a 58 cm diameter polished metal sphere, with four external radio antennae to broadcast radio pulses. -
First human in space
Yuri Alekseyevich Gagarin, was a Russian Soviet pilot and cosmonaut. He was the first human to journey into outer space, when his Vostok spacecraft completed an orbit of the Earth. -
First american in space
Alan Shepard became the first American in space. He flew on a Mercury spacecraft. There was just enough room for one person. He named his capsule Freedom 7. -
First man to orbit earth
John Glenn orbits the earth. -
First space walk
Soviet cosmonaut Alexei Leonov made the first spacewalk in history. -
Apollo 1 mission
Crew of three dies in cabin fire, during launch test. -
Apollo 8 mission
Apollo 8 was the first mission to take humans around the Moon and back. -
Apollo 11 mission
a crewed lunar landing, and return to earth, was performed. -
Apollo 13 mission
Was to be the third mission to land on the Moon. An explosion in one of the oxygen tanks crippled the spacecraft during flight and the crew was forced to orbit the Moon and return to the Earth without landing. -
Apollo 17 mission
The last Apollo mission to land men on the Moon. -
Mariner 10 launched
Mariner 10 was an American space probe launched by NASA to fly by the planets Mercury and Venus. -
Voyager 2 launch
Voyager 2 is a space probe launched by NASA to study the outer planets. -
First space shuttle launch
The space shuttle columbia is the first of its kind to launch. -
First american woman in space
Sally Ride became the first American woman to fly in space when the space shuttle Challenger launched on mission STS-7. -
Challenger disaster
The Space Shuttle Challenger disaster occurred when the NASA Space Shuttle orbiter Challenger broke apart 73 seconds into its flight, leading to the deaths of its seven crew members. -
Galileo launched
Galileo was an unmanned spacecraft that studied the planet Jupiter and its moons, as well as several other Solar System bodies. -
Hubbel telescope launch
The Hubble Space Telescope is a space telescope that was launched into low Earth orbit in 1990, and remains in operation. -
International space station finished
The first module of iss is launched into space. -
First tourist in space.
American businessman Dennis Tito becomes the world's first orbital space tourist. -
Columbia disasterc
The Space Shuttle Columbia disaster occurred when the space shuttle Columbia disintegrated over Texas and Louisiana as it reentered Earth's atmosphere, killing all seven crew members. -
First flight of spaceship one
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New Horizons launches.
New Horizons is a NASA space probe launched to study the dwarf planet Pluto, its moons and other objects in the area. -
First chinese space-walk
Chinese astronaut Zhai Zhigang, completes first spacewalk for his nation. -
Last space shuttle launch
The space shuttle Atlantis performed the last space shuttle mission. -
Curiosity rover landing
The Curiosity rover lands on mars to conduct research for NASA. -
New Horizons reaches Pluto
The New Horizons probe performed its first fly-by of Pluto.
