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Chuck Yeager breaks sound barrier
Yeager breaks sound barrier. U.S. Air Force Captain Chuck Yeager becomes the first person to fly faster than the speed of sound. Yeager, born in Myra, West Virginia, in 1923, was a combat fighter during World War II and flew 64 missions over Europe. -
Chuck Yeager breaks sound barrier
Yeager breaks sound barrier. U.S. Air Force Captain Chuck Yeager becomes the first person to fly faster than the speed of sound. Yeager, born in Myra, West Virginia, in 1923, was a combat fighter during World War II and flew 64 missions over Europe. -
ALbert is sent to space
The first monkeys to survive the flight into space were two monkeys named Able and Miss Baker. They flew to a height of 360 miles on May 28, 1959 aboard a Jupiter rocket. -
Sputnik launched
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Sputnik and dog, Laika, launched
On Nov. 3, 1957, the Soviet Union lofted a dog named Laika aboard the satellite Sputnik 2. The milestone came less than a month after the Soviets kicked off the Space Age, and the Cold War space race, with the launch of Sputnik. -
Explorer 1 makes it into space
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NASA founded
NASA, is responsible for unique scientific and technological achievements in human space flight, aeronautics, space science, and space applications that have had widespread impacts on our nation and the world. Forged in response to early Soviet space achievements, NASA was built on the NACA, and other government organizations, as the locus of U. S. civil aerospace research and development. -
Able and Miss Baker survive their flight into space
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First Russian spacecraft lands on the moon
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Alan Shepard makes it into space
Alan Shepard became the first American in space when the Freedom 7 spacecraft blasted off from Florida on May 5, 1961. Ten years later, Shepard would leave Earth's atmosphere again to become the fifth man to walk on the moon — and the first one to play golf there. -
Kennedy challenges America: within a decade man on the moon
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John Glenn is the first American in orbit
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Alexey Leonov became the first astronaut to go on a ‘spacewalk’
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Mariner 4 became the first probe to take pictures of Mars
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Soviet probe Venera lands on Venus
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Accidental launch pad deaths of Grissom, White, and Chaffee
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Apollo 8 orbits the moon
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Neil Armstrong/Buzz Aldrin walk on the moon
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First American spacecraft lands on the moon
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Last 2 men walk on moon
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Skylab space station launched
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Apollo-Soyuz Test Project
The Apollo-Soyuz Test Project was the first spaceflight to include two participating nations working together with their own national spacecraft. The Americans sent up an Apollo command module, while the Russians launched a Soyuz spacecraft. -
Mariner 9 orbits Mars
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First Challenger is launched
Maiden Flight The Challenger first launched on April 4, 1983, and completed 9 missions before breaking apart 73 seconds after the launch of its 10th mission on January 28, 1986, killing all 7 astronauts on board. -
Sally Ride is first American woman in space
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Challenger explosion
On January 28, 1986, the NASA shuttle orbiter mission and the tenth flight of Space Shuttle Challenger broke apart 73 seconds into its flight, killing all seven crew members, which consisted of five NASA astronauts and two payload specialists. -
Hubble Space Telescope deployed by Discovery
The Hubble Space Telescope was deployed from the Space shuttle Discovery during STS-31 on April 25, 1990. Since then, there have been 5 servicing missions that continued to upgrade the telescope's scientific instruments and operational systems. -
Mars Lander launched
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Death of all astronauts on Space Shuttle Columbia
On February 1, 2003, the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated upon reentering Earth's atmosphere, killing all seven crew members. The disaster was the second fatal accident in the Space Shuttle program after Space Shuttle Challenger, which broke apart and killed the seven-member crew 73 seconds after liftoff in 1986. -
Curiosity rover landed on Mars
