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