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First Satellte in Space
Sptnnik 1 became thefirst stellite to be launched by man. Inaugurating the SPACE AGE -
First U.S. Artificial Satellite
United States of America launches the first amecrican artificial satellite, the Explorer 1 -
The creation of the NASA
President Eisenhower signed the creation of the NASSA -
First Hominid into Space
Ham, the Astrochimp, a chimpanzee was launched into space, as part of America´s Space Program, demostrating that tasks could be performed in space -
First Man in Space
Cosmonaut Yury A. Gagarin became the forst human in space -
First Woman to Fly to Space
Valentina Tereshkova spent almost 3 days in space and orbited Earth 48 times -
First Docking of two Spacecraft in Earth Orbit
Command Pilot Neil Amstrong and Pilot David Scott seccessfully docked their Gemini VIII spacecraft with the Agena target vehicle, the first ever linking of two spacecraft together in Earth orbit. This crucial spaceflight technology milestone would prove vital to the success of future moon landing missions -
First Photo of Earth from the Moon Happened
NASA´s Lunar Orbiter 1 took the first photo of arth from the moon´s orbit and in changed how we see our home planet -
First man on the moon surface
Apollo 11 was the spaceflight that landed the first two people on the Moon. Mission commander Neil Armstrong and pilot Buzz Aldrin, both American, landed the lunar module Eagle on July 20, 1969 -
First Space Station into Orbit
Salyut 1, the first operational sapace station, is launched -
The Space Probe Pioneer 10
The space probe Pioneer 10 of NASA becomes the first vehicle that approches Jupiter -
First Soft Landing on Venus
Venera 9, an unmanned Soviet spacecraft became the first spacecraft to land on Venus -
First Astrometric Satellite
Launched by an Ariane-4 rocket, Hipparcos was pioneering space experiment dedicated to the precise measurement of the positions parallaxes and proper motions of the stars -
First Orbital Cosmic Microwave Observatory
COBE was launched to compare the spectrum of the cosmic microwavew background radiation with a precise blackbody -
First photograph of the whole Solar System
The cameras of Voyager 1, the first ever portrait of our solar system as seen from the outside -
First Orbit of Jupiter
The Galileo spacecraft was launched. arrived al Jupiter on Dec. 7. 1995.
It enabled a study the magnetic fields, particles and atmosphere of Jupiter -
First Landing on 433 Eros
NEAR was launched successfully on 17, Febrruary 1996.
It was the first mission to orbit an asteroid and made the first comprehensive scientific measurements of an asteroid´s surface composition, geology, physical properties and internal structure -
First International Space Station Module
The first module of the ISS (or International Space Station ) was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on a Proton rocket -
First Sample Return from Comet 81P/Wild
NASA´s fourth Discovery mission, sucessfully encountered come 81P/Wild, collecting particulate coma samples from comet Wild 2 for rerturn to Earth. These samples will be made available to the scientific community for detailed study -
First Soft Landing on Titan
The European Space Agency´s Huygens probe touched down on the surface os Saturn´s huge moon Titan.
For the first time ever, an emmissary from Earth had landed softly om a world in the outer solar system -
First Mission to Orbit around a Dwarf Planet
NASA´s Dawn spacecraft has become the first mission to achieve orbit around the dwarf planet Ceres
