Space Travel Timeline

Space Travel/Exploration TimelineAmelia Lewis Pd 1

Sputnick: first artificial satelite launched by Soviet Union on Oct. 4, 1957

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Vostok 1:first human in space (Yuri Gagarin) on April 12, 1961.

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Mercury 3:first American went into space (Alan Shepard) on May 5, 1961.

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Mercury 6: John Glenn became the first American to orbit the earth on Feb. 20, 1962.

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Vostok 6:Valentina Teleshcova became the first woman in space on June 16, 1963. (USSR)

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Voskhod 2:Alexy Leonov made the first space walk on March 18, 1965.

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Gemini 3:the first American two-man crew (Virgil Grissom ' John Young) went into space on Mar. 23, 1965

STS-1:first reusable spacecraft capable of landing like an aircraft had its first mission on April 12, 1981

Apollo-Soyus Test Project:first joint mission between USA ' USR. Launched on July 15, 1975

Apollo 11:first human on the moon ' first space launch from the moon (Neil Armstrong, Michael Collins, Buzz Aldrin) on July 21, 1963

Voyager 1:first object to leave the solar system. It launched on Sep. 5, 1977.

Skylab:first American space lab went into space on May 25, 1973.

Apollo 8:first piloted mission to the moon (Frank Borman, James Lovell, William Anders) on Dec. 21, 1968.

433 Eros:first landing on an asteroid (USA, ESA, ASI) on Feb. 12, 2001.

Mars Rover Curiosity: car-sized rover exploring the Gale Crater on Mars. It landed on Nov. 16, 2011

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Skylab

Mars Rover Curiosity

Apollo 11

Vostok 1

John Glenn