Space Travel By: Kishan P.

U.S.S.R. launches Sputnik 1

Oct 4, 1957

The first man-made object to orbit Earth.

Explorer 1 is launched by the U.S.

Jan 31, 1958

U.S.'s first satelitte launched into orbit

NASA is founded

Oct 1, 1958

National Aeronatics and Space Administration is founded in Florida

Luna 1 is launched by the U.S.S.R

Jan 2, 1959

It is the first man-made object to orbit the Moon

Luna 2 impacts the moon

Sep 13, 1959

Luna 2 becomes the first man-made object to impact the moon.It was launched by the U.S.S.R.

Tiros 1 is launched.

Apr 1, 1960

The first successful weather satelitte is launched by the U.S.

First man goes into space

Apr 12, 1961

Vostok 1 carries the, Yuri A. Gargarin, first man into space. (Soviet Union)

First woman goes into space

Jun 16, 1963

Vostok 6 carries ,Valentia Tereshkova, the first woman into space.(Soviet Union)

First space walk

Mar 18, 1965

First space walk by Soviet Alexei A. Leonov.

Neil Armstrong sets foot on the Moon.

Jul 20, 1969

Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin become the first people to set foot on the moon. It was the Apollo 11 mission.

Soviet Luna 6 is launched

Sep 12, 1970

Soviet Luna 6 is the first thing to succesfully bring back lunar soil.

Alan Shepard hits a golf ball off the moon.

Jan 31, 1971

Apollo 14 carries Alan Shepard who is the first to hit a golf ball off the moon

First woman to walk in space.

Jul 18, 1984

Svetlana Savitskaya become to first woman to perform a space walk.

Hubble Space Telescope is launched.

Apr 24, 1990

The Hubble Space Telescope is launched and it discovered many new space objects.

International Space Station is launched

Nov 20, 1998

ISS is the biggest space station ever.