SPACE RACE

V2 rocket

Oct 3, 1943

First launching

Albert II

May 4, 1949

First monkey in space

Sputnik

Jan 4, 1957

First satelite

Sputnik 2

Nov 3, 1957

Carrying a dog

Explorer 1

Jan 31, 1958

First US satelite on orbit.

Explorer 2

Mar 5, 1958

Launched and failed to get into orbit

Vanguard 1

Mar 17, 1958

Launched. Its the oldest satelite which is still in orbit but lost communication in 1964.

Mariner 4

May 15, 1958

Returned with close up images of the Martian surface

NASA

Oct 1, 1958

NASA programme was stablished

Pioneer

Oct 11, 1958

First launch by NASA

Luna 1

Jan 2, 1959

First human made satelite to orbit the Moon.

Pioneer 4

Mar 3, 1959

Firts sun orbiter.

Luna 2

Sep 12, 1959

First human made object to hit the Moon

Luna 3

Oct 4, 1959

Photograohed 70% of the far side of the Moon

Tiros 1

Apr 1, 1960

First successful weather satellite.

Discoverer XIV

Aug 18, 1960

First camera equiped spy satellite

Yuri Gagarin

Apr 12, 1961

First human in space

Luna 9

1962

First probe on the moon

Apollo 11

1969

First human on the Moon

Lunokhod 1

1970

First successful robotic lunar rover remotly controlled from Russia

Apollo 15 LVR

1971

Men went to the Moon with a LVR to help them travell to take photos and to collect samples

Venera 7

1975

Frist probe on Venus

ESA

1975

The European Space Agency was established

Voyager 2

Aug 20, 1977

Voyager 1

Sep 5, 1977

Reusable shuttle

1981

First reusable space shuttle

Sally Ride

1983

First US woman in space

Hubble Space Telescope

1990

Galileo

1995

First probe on Jupiter

Valery Polyakov

1995

He spent 439 days in orbit

ISS

1998

International Space Station

Glenn 77

1998

Oldest person to fly in space

Manning of the ISS

2000

Mars Odyssey

2001

Reaches Mars to study its geology

Space shuttle Columbia

2003

It broke apart in the entry back to Earth