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Space Missions Through 2020
Famous spacecraft, firsts and astronauts up to 2020.
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- First artificial satellite, launched 1957QuestionSputnik 1 (Soviet Union)
- First animal in orbit, 1957QuestionLaika the dog, on Sputnik 2
- First human in space, 1961QuestionYuri Gagarin
- First American in space, 1961QuestionAlan Shepard
- First American to orbit Earth, 1962QuestionJohn Glenn
- First woman in space, 1963QuestionValentina Tereshkova
- First spacewalk, 1965QuestionAlexei Leonov
- Project MercuryQuestionNASA's first program to put Americans in space
- Project GeminiQuestionNASA program of two-person flights that practiced docking and spacewalks
- Project ApolloQuestionNASA program that landed people on the Moon
- Apollo 8QuestionFirst crewed mission to orbit the Moon, 1968
- Apollo 11QuestionFirst crewed Moon landing, July 1969
- First person on the MoonQuestionNeil Armstrong
- Second person on the MoonQuestionBuzz Aldrin
- Apollo 11 command module pilotQuestionMichael Collins
- Armstrong's famous wordsQuestionThat's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind
- Apollo 13Question1970 mission that returned safely after an oxygen tank failure
- Apollo 17QuestionThe last crewed Moon landing, December 1972
- Lunar roverQuestionA vehicle astronauts drove on the Moon in later Apollo missions
- SkylabQuestionThe first US space station, launched 1973
- SalyutQuestionThe first space station, launched by the Soviet Union in 1971
- MirQuestionA Soviet and Russian space station that orbited from 1986 to 2001
- International Space StationQuestionA research station orbiting Earth, with crews living aboard since 2000
- ISS orbit height, aboutQuestion400 kilometers above Earth
- Space ShuttleQuestionNASA's reusable spacecraft that flew from 1981 to 2011
- First Space Shuttle to orbitQuestionColumbia, 1981
- Space Shuttle orbitersQuestionColumbia, Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis and Endeavour
- First American woman in spaceQuestionSally Ride, 1983
- First African American in space from the USQuestionGuion Bluford, 1983
- Mae JemisonQuestionThe first African American woman in space, 1992
- Hubble Space TelescopeQuestionOrbiting telescope launched in 1990
- Who is the Hubble named for?QuestionAstronomer Edwin Hubble
- Voyager 1QuestionProbe launched in 1977; entered interstellar space in 2012
- Voyager 2QuestionProbe launched in 1977 that visited Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune
- Pioneer 10QuestionThe first spacecraft to fly past Jupiter, in 1973
- Mariner 4QuestionFirst spacecraft to photograph Mars up close, 1965
- Viking 1 and 2QuestionUS probes that landed on Mars in 1976
- Mars PathfinderQuestion1997 mission that carried the small rover Sojourner
- Spirit and OpportunityQuestionTwin Mars rovers that landed in 2004
- CuriosityQuestionA Mars rover that landed in 2012
- CassiniQuestionA probe that orbited Saturn from 2004 to 2017
- HuygensQuestionA probe that landed on Saturn's moon Titan in 2005
- GalileoQuestionA spacecraft that orbited Jupiter from 1995 to 2003
- JunoQuestionA spacecraft that began orbiting Jupiter in 2016
- New HorizonsQuestionProbe that flew past Pluto in 2015
- MagellanQuestionA probe that mapped Venus with radar in the early 1990s
- MESSENGERQuestionThe first spacecraft to orbit Mercury, 2011
- DawnQuestionA spacecraft that orbited the asteroid Vesta and dwarf planet Ceres
- RosettaQuestionEuropean mission that orbited a comet and sent a lander in 2014
- KeplerQuestionA space telescope that found thousands of planets around other stars
- SpitzerQuestionAn infrared space telescope launched in 2003
- ChandraQuestionA NASA X-ray space telescope launched in 1999
- Parker Solar ProbeQuestionSpacecraft launched in 2018 to fly close to the Sun
- OSIRIS-RExQuestionA probe that collected samples from asteroid Bennu in 2020
- HayabusaQuestionJapanese probes that returned samples from asteroids
- Chang'e 4QuestionChinese lander that touched down on the Moon's far side in 2019
- Challenger disasterQuestion1986 Space Shuttle accident in which seven crew members died
- Columbia disasterQuestion2003 Space Shuttle accident that lost its seven crew
- Crew DragonQuestionSpaceX capsule that carried NASA astronauts in 2020
- SputnikQuestionRussian for fellow traveler or satellite
- Longest single spaceflight by a woman, 2019-20QuestionChristina Koch, 328 days
- CosmonautQuestionA Russian space traveler
- TaikonautQuestionA Chinese space traveler
- AstronautQuestionA space traveler from the United States and many other countries
- Launch padQuestionThe platform a rocket lifts off from
- Kennedy Space CenterQuestionNASA's launch site in Florida
- BaikonurQuestionThe launch site in Kazakhstan used by Russian rockets
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