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Space Exploration
October 4, 1957
Sputnik 1
First man-made
satellite in space
April 12, 1961
Yuri Gargarin
First person in space
May 5, 1961
Alan B. Shepard
The first American to go
into space
February 12, 1962
John Glenn, Jr.
First American in
orbit
June 16, 1963
Valentina Tereshkova
First woman to go into
space
July 20, 1969
Neil Armstrong
The first person (American) to step foot on
the moon
Apollo
The missions to the moon
The number of missions
that made it to the moon?
6, so 12 men have walked
on the moon!
April 19, 1971
Salyut 1
First space station to orbit
the Earth
First Occupation of Space
Station June 7
July 20, 1976
Viking
First US Mars Landing
April 12, 1981
First Space Shuttle Launch
June 18, 1983
Sally Ride
First American woman to
go into space
February 20, 1986
Mir
First modular space station
July 4, 1997
Pathfinder Probe Landed on Mars
Future Mars Rovers
Spirit: June 10, 2003
Opportunity: July 7, 2003
Mars Science Laboratory: November 26,
2011
Will arrive October 2012
November 20, 1998
International Space Station
Habitual artificial satellite
Components launched from both America and
Russia
July 8, 2011
Atlantis Launched
Last Shuttle
Landed July 21, 2011 marking the end of
NASA’s 30 year shuttle program