| A History of Space Explorations 1957- Present |
| 1957 - First Earth orbit, by spacecraft Soviet Spuntinik October 4- First satellite in space by the Russians November 3- First animal in space, a dog named Laika 1958 - First U.S satellite in space 1959 - First probe (Lunar 1) to go near the moon, by the Russians - Crash landing on the moon made by Lunar 2 1960 August- First two animals to make it back to Earth from space, two dogs Strelka and Belka 1961 - First manned space flight, by Yuri Gagarin of the USSR for 60 minutes - First Venus probe, by spacecraft Venera 1, of the Russians 1963 - First woman in space, Valentina Tereshkova- Nikolayeva of the USSR 1964 - First three- crewed space flight by the USSR in spacecraft Voskhod 1 1965 -First space walk, by Lenov, of the USSR 1966 - First soft landing on the moon, by Luna 9 of the USSR - Landing on Venus, by spacecraft Venus 3, of the Russians 1967 - First soft landing on Venus, by the USSR 1968 - First manned Apollo flight (Apollo 7) - First flight around the moon by Apollo 8 1969 July 21- First man on the moon, Neil Armstrong in Apollo 11, with Aldrin and Collins 1970 - First unmanned lunar vehicle, by spacecraft Lunokhod 1 1971 - First space lab, by spacecraft Salyut 1 of the Soviet for 22 days - First manned lunar rover, by spacecraft Apollo 15 1972 - Second manned landing on the moon, by spacecraft Apollo 17 - First colour image of Earth from NASA 1974 - Soft landing on Mars, by spacecraft Mars 5 1983 - Second woman in space, (first U.S woman) Sally Ride of the U.S 1984 - First human to orbit Earth, Bruce MacCandless of the U.S 1985 - First probe to reach a comet, by the U.S 1986 Janurary 24- First probe to reach Uranus, by the U.S 1987 - First permanently occupied space station, space station MIR, of the USSR 1988 - Longest manned space flight, 365 days, by Titov Manarov of the USSR 1989 - First probe to reach Neptune, by Voyager 2 of the U.S 1992 September 24- Launch to Mars 1995 December 7 1995- Probe enters Jupiter's atmosphere December 7 1995 - Orbit of Jupiter 1996 August 7- A fossil found in a meteorite December 4- Mars Pathfinder launch 1997 July 4- Pathfinder lands on Mars September 11 - Orbit of Mars October 15- Orbit of Saturn 2001 April 7- Mars Odyssey launch |
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