Space Exploration

Space Exploration Timeline

  • 1957: The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite.
  • 1961: Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human to orbit the Earth.oPokc4rVY8SB8wT77vzz84 1
  • 1969: Neil Armstrong walks on the Moon during the Apollo 11 mission.a HE66d 6ZeiuKTRcFJGeb1 36szMhGJ36S0 I8Mpl0XzUgbaOJAdeNbnmJLXvZT Tt5Ka4ygOBpZe671CsI7Lm4GdstnMW6VPDgvJvd9j2dWhC1MALD zeN4W3vIcjN8QZ m02YV2IWppP 0 g527y5QlrBnd6SzAiiIuaq HnnL7hFqdyWD3P5TqEwG3o
  • 1977: NASA launches Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 to explore the outer planets.
  • 1990: NASA and ESA launch the Hubble Space Telescope

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    • 1998: Nations collaborate to build the International Space Station (ISS), a laboratory in orbit where astronauts live and work
    • 2012: The Curiosity rover lands on Mars and studies its environment to search for signs of past life.

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  • 2021: The James Webb Space Telescope begins observations and detects light from some of the universe’s first stars and galaxies.

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Space timeline