Space Exploration Timeline

Apollo 13 has its failed moon mission

Apollo 8 is launched, and her crew becomes the first humans to orbit the moon

Astronaut Alan Shepard becomes the first american in space

Columbia is the first space shuttle launched

Fly-By of pluto with New Horizons

John Glenn becomes the first American in orbit

John Glenn becomes the oldest man in space

Luna 9 provides the first photos from another planet (The Moon)

NASA launches the first american in space: A chimp named Ham

President Kennedy challange America to put a man on the moon

Explorer 1 is the first american satellite launched into orbit.

Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human in space

Sputnik 2 is launched with the first astronaut: a dog named Laika

The Apollo 1 space crew is killed during a fire in training

The core module of Mir, the first consistantly inhabited space station, is launched

The first food grown in space (Lettuce) is eaten

The first man walks in space- a Russian named Alexi Leonov

The first men walk on the moon- Apollo 11 mission

The first probe lands on a asteroid, Eros

The first satellite, Sputnik, is launched into space

The first spacecraft lands on a comet

The Hubble Space Telescope is deployed

The international Space Station (ISS) is established

The space shuttle Challanger explodes during launch

Voyager 1 enters interstellar space