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Sputnik I is launched.
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Sputnik II is Launched.
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Explorer II is launched.
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Explorer II is Launched.
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Sputnik III is launched.
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NASA program begins operations.
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Pioneer I: First NASA launch in Florida.
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NASA research pilot John McKay makes the last flight in the X-1E.
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An air force Atlas booster places into orbit a communications relay satellite.
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The first voice message was sent from space.
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Luna I is Launched.
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The United States launches Vanguard II, an international Geophysical Year scientific satellite from Florida.
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The US sends Pioneer 4 to the moon, succesfully making the first lunar flyby.
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Nasa unveiles the Mercury astronaut corps.
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Scott Crossfield makes the first unpowered glide flight in the joint X-15 hypersonic research program.
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Luna II is Launched.
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Luna III is Launched.
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The US launches the TIROS I, the first successful meteorological satellite, for monitoring Earth's weather.
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NASA successfully puts into orbit Echo I, a passive communication satellite.
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Alan Shepard is the first American to fly in space.
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President John F. Kennedy committs the US and the NASA program to land on the moon before the end of the decade.
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John Glenn becomes the first American to orbit the Earth.
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NASA leaders meet at the Marshall Space Center to select one of the three methods of going to the moon.
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Two robotic test flights of Project Gemini takes place.
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The second piloted Gemini mission stays aloft for four days and the EVA, or spacewalk is performed by American astronaut, Edward H. White.
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Gemini VII is launched.
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Surveyer I is launched as the first U.S. spacecraft to land in the moon.
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Apollo VII orbits the Earth once.
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Apollo VIII, atop the Saturn V booster, is launched from the Kennedy Space Center with 3 astronauts aboard.
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Apollo XI is launched, and Niel Armstrong and Edwin Aldrin are the U.S. astronauts to walk on the moon.
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Apollo VIII orbits Earth 10 times in 6 days.
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Apollo XIII is launched, but the oxygen tank gets damaged, and the crew returns home safely.
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Apollo XV is launched, and Alan Shepard hits golf ball on the moon.
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NASA agrees with the president to proceed with the Space Shuttle development.
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Pioneer X is launched from the Kennedy Space Center to land on Jupiter. It is the first to pass through the Asteroid Belt
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A NASA research pilot flies a modified F-8C model.
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Apollo XVII is the last of the Apollo missions to the moon, and it is the only one to include a scientist.
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Skylab is launched.
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The Apollo-Soyez Test Project begins on Jun. 15 1975 and ends on Jul. 24, 1975.
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The Viking I is launched from the Kennedy Space Center on a trip to Mars.
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Viking II lands on Mars.
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Voyager II is launched .
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The first flight of the Space Transportation System takes place.
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Sally K. Ride is the first woman in space.
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The first African-American is sent into space.
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The first foreign astronaut is launched in the Space Shuttle Columbia.
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The space shuttle Challenger is destroyed and its crew members lost.
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The 26th flight of the Discovery space shuttle takes place.
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The Magellan mission to Venus begins.
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President George W. Bush announces the plans for SEI.
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The Galileo spacecraft is launched.
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The Hubble Telescope is launched into space.
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The repair mission for the Hubble Telescope optics is a success.
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The Atlantis is launched into space then docked on the Mir spacestation on July 7, 1995.
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NASA scientists uncover evidence that microscopic life may have once lived on Mars.
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The Mars Pathfinder rover lands on Mars.
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A space probe enters orbit around Mars.
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Representatives from 15 countries meet in Washington DC to sign agreements to establish the framework for cooperation among the partners on the design, development, operations, and utilization of the International Space Station (ISS).
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John Glenn returns to space once more.
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The space shuttle Columbia is launched on its 26th flight and returns on July 27, 1999.
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The space shuttle Terra is launched.
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The International Space Station is launched.
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The space shuttle Columbia breaks apart in the atmosphere.
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NASA's Stardust mission is a success.
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George W. Bush announces the new Vision at NASA headquarters.
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The first spacecraft orbits Saturn.
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NASA successfully lands two rovers; one on Oct. 3, and the other on Oct. 24.
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The New Horizons spacecraft launched on a nine year mission to Pluto.
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One of NASA's scientists wins a Noble Prize in physics.
