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First Satellite to Orbit Earth (October 4, 1957) "Sputnik" is the first artificial satellite to orbit earth launched Soviet Union.
First Human in Space (April 12, 1961) Yuri Gagarin becomes the first man in space.
First Woman in Space (June 16, 1963) Russian astronaut, Valentina Tereshkova spends 3 days in space.
First Space Walk (March 18, 1965) The first space walk is taken by Alexei Leonov.
First Deaths in Space (January 27, 1967) A fire kills 3 Apollo 1 astronauts during a test on the launchpad.
First Moon Landing (July 20, 1969) Neil Armstrong becomes the first man to walk on the moon.
First Space Rescue (April 13, 1970) The crew aboard Apollo 13 were returned safely to Earth after an oxygen tank exploded on board.
First Space Station (April 19, 1971) Salyut 1 is the first orbiting space station.
First International Docking (July 17, 1975) American and Soviet spacecraft dock together in space in a show of peaceful cooperation.
First Mars Landing (July 20, 1976) The first pictures from the surface of Mars are transmitted from an unmanned scientific probe.
First Reusable Space Vehicle (April 12, 1981) The space shuttle, Columbia takes 2 astronauts into space; it launches like a rocket and lands like an airplane.
First Woman to Do a Space Walk (July 17, 1984) Svetlana Savitskaya is the first woman to do a space walk.
First Year in Space (December 21, 1988) Russian astronauts spend 366 days in space.
First Space Telescope (April 25, 1990) The Hubble Space Telescope is deployed and gives the first images of distance galaxies and planets outside our solar system.
First Spacecraft to Leave the Solar System (September 22, 1990) The Pioneer 10 reaches a distance 50 times farther from the sun than Earth and is the first spacecraft to cross the asteroid belt and reach Jupiter.
First International Space Station (ISS) Mission (February 3, 1994) The ISS is a habitable artificial satellite, in low Earth orbit.
First Surface Travel on Another Planet (July 6, 1997) The robot, Sojourner, explores the surface of Mars.
First Space Studies on the Elderly (October 29, 1998) John Glenn, the oldest person to go into space flew aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery.
First Non-Astronaut to Enter Space (April 28, 2001) Billionaire, Dennis Tito became the first paying passenger to enter outer space.
China Sends First Man Into Space (October 15, 2003) China successfully sent its first astronaut, Yang Liwei into space.
First Spacecraft to Orbit Saturn (July 1, 2004) Cassini-Huygens became the first spacecraft to orbit Saturn.
First Landing on an Alien Moon (January 14, 2005) The Huygens probe lands on Saturn's largest moon, Titan, and is successful in sending a series of images back to Earth.
First Impact With a Comet (July 4, 2005) The Deep Impact space probe fulfills its mission by slamming into a comet known as Tempel 1.
First Comet Samples Returned to Earth (January 15, 2006) Dust and particle samples are successfully collected from comet, Wild 2.
The Hunt for Extrasolar Planets (March 6, 2009) The Kepler spacecraft launches on a mission to search for planets outside our solar system.
First Spacecraft to Orbit Mercury (March 18, 2011) NASA's Messenger spacecraft becomes the first man made craft to orbit Mercury.
Curiosity Rover Lands on Mars (August 6, 2012) NASA's Curiosity rover successfully lands on Mars.
First Skydive Jump to Break the Sound Barrier (October 14, 2012) Australian skydiver Felix Baumgartner becomes the first human being to break the sound barrier without a jet or spacecraft as he jumps from the edge of space
First Spacecraft to Land on a Comet (November 12, 2014) The European Space Agency's Philae lander becomes the first spacecraft to make a soft landing on a comet.
New Horizons Arrives at Pluto (July 14, 2015) NASA's New Horizons spacecraft arrives at Pluto after a journey of more than 9 years and 4.6 billion miles.