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1970-Soviet Luna 16 was launched, conducting the first successful return of lunar soil samples of a spacecraft-September 12-USSR
-Luna 17 landed on the moon, with the first robot, Lunokhod 1. -November 17-USSR
1971-Salyut 1 space station was launched by the USSR. It remained
in orbit until May 28, 1973. -April 19-USSR
-The United States launched Mariner 9, which became the first
spacecraft to survey Mars from orbit. -May 30-USA
-American Mariner 9 was the first spacecraft to orbit another
planet, Mars. -November 13-USA
1972-Pioneer 10 became the first human made object to travel
through the asteroid belt. -July 15-USA
1973-Pioneer 11 was launched flying past Jupiter in 1974 and Saturn
in 1979 where it discovered new rings. -April 5-USA
1960-Tiros 1, the first successful weather satellite, is launched.-April 1-USA
-The US launches Discoverer XIV, its first camera equipped spy satellite.- August 18- USA
1961-Yuri Gagarin orbits the Earth once and becomes the first man in space.-April 12- USSR
-President John F. Kennedy addresses Congress and challenges the nation to go to the Moon before the end of the decade.- May 25-USA
-Gherman Titov spends a day in space aboard Vostok 2.- August 6-USSR
1962- Mariner 2 flies past Venus and enters a solar orbit.- December 14-USA
1966-Luna 9 becomes the first spacecraft to soft-land on the Moon.- February 3-USSR
-Luna 10 becomes the first satellite to orbit the Moon.-April 3-USSR
-Gemini 12, the last flight of the Gemini Program, launches with James Lovell and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin aboard.-November 11-USA
1967-Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee are killed when a fire ignites in their Apollo 1 capsule while performing a test on the launch pad.-january 27-USA
-Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger Chaffee are killed when a fire ignites in their Apollo 1 capsule while performing a test on the launch pad.-April 24-USSR
-Venera 4 transmits data about the atmosphere of Venus.-October 18-USSR
1984-Bruce McCandless took the first untethered space walk from the space shuttle Challenger. February 3-USA
-Soyuz 12 was launched carrying Svetlana Saviskaya, who
became the first woman to walk in space. -July 17-USSR
-Soviet/International Vega 1&@ were launched, dropping probes into Venus’ atmosphere before continuing to Halley’s Comet. -December 14-USSR
1985-The Challenger carried the ESA spacelab-3 into orbit. -April 29-USA
-The fourth space shuttle Atlantis took off on its first mission. -October 3-USA
1986-The core unit of Soviet space station Mir was launched. February
20-USSR
1989-U.S. launched the Galileo spacecraft from Shuttle Atlantis flight -October 18-USA
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1957- Sputnik was launched from USSR. October 3-USSR
- USSR launches Sputnik 2 which carried a small dog named Laika into orbit. November 3-USSR
1968-Zond 5 is launched. It carried a biological payload (including two turtles) around the Moon and returned to Earth six days later.-September 15-USSR
-Frank Borman, James Lovell, and William Anders begin the first manned journey from the Earth to the Moon.-December 21-USA
1969-Soyuz 4 & 5 perform the first Soviet spacecraft docking.-January 16-USSR
-Neil Armstrong and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin become the first men to walk on the Moon while crewmate Michael Collins orbits around the Moon alone.-July 20-USA
-Pete Conrad and Alan Bean perform the first precision lunar landing, touching down just 600 feet from the Surveyor 3 probe that arrived two years earlier.- November 19-USA
1981- The first mission of the Space Transportation System,
Columbia, was launched. -April 12-USA
1982-Venera 13 landed on Venus, and provided the first oil analysis-March 1-USSR
-Soviet Soyuz T-5 was launched to rendezvous with Salyut 7, the first team to inhabit the space station. -May 13- USSR
-Voyager 2 completed its flyby of Saturn. -August 10-USA
-The space shuttle Columbia’s 5th mission, its first operational one, began, deploying two satellites.-November 11-USA
1983-The space shuttle Challenger lifted off for its first mission and had the first American space walk in nine years. -April 4-USA
-Soviet Venera 15 returned the first high-resolution images of
the Venus polar area, and compiled a thermal map of the most
of the northern hemisphere. -October 12-USA
1963-L. Gordon Cooper spends 34 hours in space. He is the last American to fly in space alone.-May 15-USA
-Cosmonaut Valentia Tereshkova becomes the first woman in space.- June 16- USSR
-President Kennedy is assassinated.- November 22-USA
1964-Ranger 7 transmits the first close range images of the Moon.- July 31- USA
1965-Alexei Leonov spends 12 minutes outside of his Voskhod spacecraft performing the first spacewalk.-March 18-USSR
-Mariner 4 returns close ranger images of Mars.-July 14-USA
- Venus 3 is launched. It becomes the first man made object to impact Venus on March 1, 1966.-November 16-USSR
1958-Explorer 1, the first American satellite to reach orbit, is launched. It carried scientific equipment that lead to the discovery of the Van Allen radiation belt. January 31- USA
-Sputnik 3 is launched-May 15- USSR
-The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) is formed- October 1-USA
-Pioneer 1 is launched to a height of 70,700 miles.-October 11-USSR
1959-Luna 1 is launched by the USSR. It is the first man made object to orbit the Sun. January 2-USSR
-The "Mercury Seven" astronauts are selected by NASA.- April 2-USA
- Luna 2 is launched. It impacts the Moon on September 13, becoming the first man-made object to do so.-September 12-USSR
-Luna 3 orbits the Moon and photographs 70% of its surface.- October 4-USSR