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Sputnik 1 takes off from Russia in hopes of beating America in the Space Race.
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Pioneer 0 is launched into space
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Pioneer 1 is launched into space
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Pioneer 2 was launched into space.
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Mariner 1's mission was considered a failure
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Mariner 2's mission was considered a success.
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Mariner 3 launched off from America
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Mariner 5 took off from America
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Mariner 6 took off from America.
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Skylab Spacecraft launches off from America
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Pioneer 11's Probe was launched into the Jovian System.
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Mariner 10 took off from America.
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Pioneer 10-S arrived at the Jovian System.
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Viking 1 took off from America
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Viking 2 launched off from America
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Viking 1 took its first picture
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Viking 2 lands on Mars
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The Voyager took off from America
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The first Voyager took off
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Skyland returns to America after its space exploration.
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Viking 2 loses communications with NASA
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Columbia launches off for first America spacecraft launch
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Viking 1 loses communications with NASA
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Pioneer 10 became the first object created by himans to leave the Solar System.
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Discovery is in space, collecting observations for NASA
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The MIR Spacecraft takes off into space
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The Magellan Spacecraft took off from the Kennedy Spacecraft Center,
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The Galileo Spacecraft launched off from the Kennedy Space Center aboard Space Shuttle Atlanta on mission STS-34
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Galileo arrived at Venus, using its gravitational pull as a slingshot to arrive at Jupiter
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The Hubble Space Telescope launches off from America.
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Galileo completed its first fly-by of Earth, using its gravitational pull as a slingshot to reach Jupiter.
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Galileo becomes the first spacecraft to ever encounter an asteroid.
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Galileo passes between the Earth and the Moon on its trip to Jupiter.
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Galileo sees a second asteroid, a very rare occurence at the time
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The Magellan Spacecraft burned in Venus' atmosphere.
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Galileo finally arrived at Jupiter after observations were nearing completion.
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Galileo became the first spacecraft to observe comet fragments colliding into Jupiter by using a long-distance telescope
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Galileo released its atmospheric probe into Jupiter's atmosphere to coollect data on the pressure and weather
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Less than two months before Galileo was meant to arrive at Jupiter, its tape recorder malfunctioned
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Galileo became the first spacecraft to orbit Jupiter
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NEAR Shoemaker takes off from America.
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The Cassini Spacecraft launches off from the Cape Canaveral Station in Florida.
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Galileo's main mission ended after it had succesfully discovered and monitored Jupiter's weather and surrounding planets, asteroids, and moons.
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Galileo was sent back into space to discover the effects of radiation on spacecraft
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NEAR Shoemaker becomes the first spacecraft to land on an asteroid.
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NEAR Shoemaker becomes deactivated near Eros, but is still able to be reactivated
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The Genesis Spacecraft takes off from Florida.
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The Genesis Spacecraft starts collecting solar wind data.
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The Spacecraft Galileo plunged into Jupiter's crushing atmosphere to protect its discovery of a possible ocean beneath the icy crust of Europa, one of Jupiter's moons.
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The Genesis Spacecraft stopped collecting data from solar winds.
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The Genesis Spacecraft crash-lands in Oregon while trying to deorbit.
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The Cassini Spacecraft lands on Titan.
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Atlantis became the last space shuttle to take off.
