Eventos
First Artificial Satellite: Sputnik I
- launched by Russia
- size of beach ball
- weighed 83.6 kg
- took 98 minutes to orbit EarthFirst Woman in Space
- Valentina Tereshkova
- Russian
- spent 3 days in space and orbited Earth 48 times in Vostok 6First Orbiting Lab
- Manned Orbiting Labrotory by Air Force
- "a crewed surveillance satellite into orbit to spy on the Soviet Union"
- never actually launched into spaceFirst Space Walk
- Alexei Leonov (he was 30 years old at the time)
- Leonov was a Soviet cosmonaut
- Voskhod 2First Successful Space Docking
- Gemini 8
- under command of Neil Armstrong, docked with Agena Target Vehicle.First Lunar Orbit
- Apollo 8
- second manned spaceflight mission in U.S. Apollo space programFirst Lunar Landing
- Apollo 11
- Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin, and Michael Collins (American)
- "One giant leap for mankind"Last Lunar Landing
- Apollo 17, final mission of NASA's Apollo program
- Eugene A. Cernan, Ronald E. Evans, Harrison H. SchmittFirst Space Shuttle Mission
- Columbia lifted off Kennedy Space Center
- commander: John Young, a veteran of Gemini and Apollo
- pilot: Bob Crippen.First Martian Landing
- consisted of a lander and Sojourner (the rover)
- ended November 4, 1997 after great success and public interest
- second mission in NASA's low-cost Discovery series
- "The mission's primary objective was to demonstrate the feasibility of low-cost landings on the Martian surface."First Man-Made Object to Leave the Solar System
- Voyager 1
- Launched in 1977First Orbit of Earth
- USSR's Yuri Gagarin
- happened in Vostok 1First Manned Space Flight
- USSR's Yuri Gagarin
- happened in Vostok 1Skylab
- United States' first and only space station
- fell back to Earth in 1979 in pieces that landed in Esperance, Australia (near Perth)
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