space exploration

Timeline of Events

Year	Month	Day	Event
1915	Mar	03	NACA, The Predecessor Of NASA, Is Founded
1946	Oct	24	Rocket Camera Takes First Photo Of Earth
1958	Jan	31	Explorer 1 Was Launched Into Orbit
1958	Mar	17	U.S. Launches Vanguard 1
1958	May	15	The Soviet Union Launches Sputnik 3
1958	Jul	26	Explorer 4 Is Launched
1958	Oct	07	U.S Space Project Renamed To Mercury
1958	Oct	11	NASA Pioneer Probe Launch Falls Short
1959	Aug	07	Atlantic Missile Range In Cape Canaveral
1959	Sep	12	Soviets Launch Moon Rocket, Lunik II
1959	Sep	18	Vanguard 3 Is Launched Into Orbit
1960	May	15	The Soviet Union Launches Sputnik 4
1961	Feb	16	Exporer 9 Is Launched
1962	May	24	Scott Carpenter's Triple Orbit Around The Earth
1962	Aug	27	Venus Bound Mariner 2 Is Launched
1962	Dec	14	NASA Sends Spacecraft To Fly By Venus
1964	Jan	30	Ranger 6 Is Launched
1965	Nov	29	The Canadian Alouette 2 Satellite Is Launched
1966	Feb	03	Soviet Luna 9 Lands On The Moon
1966	Mar	01	Venera 3, Crashes On Venus
1966	Mar	16	Gemini 8 In First Space Docking
1966	May	25	Explorer 32 Launches
1966	Oct	22	The Soviet Union Launches Luna 12
1966	Nov	11	NASA Launches Gemini 12
1967	Jun	14	Venus Targeted By Mariner 5
1968	Jan	22	Apollo 5 Carries First Lunar Module
1968	Apr	04	NASA Launches Apollo 6
1969	Jan	15	The Soviet Union Launches Soyuz 5
1969	Mar	03	NASA Launches Lunar Module Test
1969	May	16	Soviet Space Probe Lands On Venus
1969	May	18	Apollo 10 Is Launched
1969	Jul	24	Apollo 11 Lands In The Ocean
1969	Nov	14	Apollo 12 Launches To The Moon
1970	Mar	31	After 12 Years Orbitting Explorer 1 Returns
1970	Apr	11	Apollo 13 Is Launched
1971	Feb	05	Apollo 14 Astronauts Land On Moon
1971	Jun	06	Soyuz 11 Is Launched
1971	Nov	14	Mariner 9 Enters Orbit Around Mars
1972	Mar	02	Pioneer 10 Launched From Cape Canaveral
1972	Apr	16	Apollo 16 Launched From Cape Canaveral
1972	Apr	20	Apollo 16 Lands On The Moon
1972	Dec	11	Apollo 17 - Last Apollo To Land On Moon
1973	Jan	08	Soviet Space Mission Luna 21 Is Launched
1973	Apr	06	Launch Of Pioneer 11 Spacecraft
1973	Jul	25	Soviet Mars 5 Space Probe Is Launched
1974	Mar	29	First Space Probe Flies By Mercury
1975	Oct	22	Soviet Venera 9 Lands On Venus
1976	Jul	20	American Viking 1 Lander Successfully Reaches Mars
1976	Jul	25	Viking 1 Takes Mars Photo
1976	Sep	17	NASA Unveils First Space Shuttle (Enterprise)
1977	Feb	18	Enterprise's Maiden Flight Atop 747
1977	Aug	12	Initial Free Flight Of Space Shuttle Enterprise
1977	Sep	05	Voyager 1 Is Launched
1978	Aug	26	Sigmund Jähn Becomes First German Cosmonaut
1979	Jul	11	Skylab Explodes Over The Indian Ocean
1980	Nov	12	Voyager I Photographs Saturn's Rings
1981	Apr	14	1st Shuttle Flight- Columbia - STS1
1982	Mar	05	Soviet Probe Venera 14 Landed On Venus
1983	Apr	07	Musgrave And Peterson Perform Spacewalk During STS-6
1983	Apr	25	Pioneer 10 Travels Beyond Pluto's Orbit
1984	Aug	30	Shuttle Discovery On Maiden Voyage
1986	Jan	24	Voyager 2 Was 50,600 Miles From Uranus
1986	Mar	04	Soviet Vega 1 Returns Halley's Comet Images
1989	Aug	08	Shuttle Columbia Takes Off On Secret Mission
1990	Feb	14	Voyager 1 Photographs Earth
1990	Aug	10	The Magellan Space Probe Reaches Venus
1990	Nov	15	Space Shuttle Launches Flight STS-38
1992	Jan	22	First Woman, In Space Also First Neurologist
1993	Aug	21	Nasa Loses Contact With Mars Observer
1994	Jan	25	The Clementine Space Probe Launches
1996	Nov	07	NASA Launches The Mars Global Surveyor
1997	Jun	25	Progress Spacecraft Collides With Space Station
1997	Oct	15	Saturn Probe Cassini Lauched From Cape Canaveral
1998	Jul	04	Japan Launches Nozomo Mars Probe
1999	Jan	03	The Mars Polar Lander Is Launched
2001	Apr	07	Mars Odyssey Is Launched
2002	Feb	19	Beginning Of NASA's Mars Odyssey Space Probe
2002	Apr	27	Last Telemetry From NASA Probe Pioneer 10
2002	May	28	Mars Odyssey Finds Water Signs In Mars
2003	Jun	10	NASA's Spirit Rover: Mars Exploration Beginning
2003	Jul	07	NASA Opportunity Rover Launched
2003	Oct	15	China's First Manned Space Mission, Shenzhou 5
2004	Jan	04	NASA Rover Spirit Lands On Mars
2004	Jan	25	Opportunity Rover Lands On Mars
2004	Jun	11	Cassini Huygens Flyies By Phoebe
2004	Oct	04	SpacesShipOne Is The First Private Spacecraft
2004	Dec	25	Huygens Probe Lands On Titan
2005	Jan	12	Cape Canaveral: Launch Of Deep Impact
2005	Jul	29	Dwarf Planet Eris Discovery Announced
2006	Jan	19	NASA Launches Probes First Time To Pluto
2006	Jun	18	Launch Of Space Satellite KazSat
2006	Jun	21	Pluto's New Moons Are Named Nix Hydra
2007	Aug	04	NASA's Phoenix Spaceship Is Launched
2007	Sep	27	NASA Launches The Dawn Probe
2007	Nov	05	China's First Lunar Satellite Orbits Moon
2008	Sep	28	Spacex Launches First Private Spacecraft
2008	Oct	22	Chandrayaan-1 Launches By India
2009	Mar	07	Kepler Observatory Designes Is Launched
2009	Jun	18	NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Is Launched
2011	Mar	09	Discovery Makes Final Landing After 39 Flights
2011	Jul	21	Space Shuttle Program Ends With Mission STS-135
2012	Aug	06	NASA's Curiosity Rover Lands On Mars
2013	Feb	20	Smallest Extrasolar Planet Discovered
2013	Sep	18	Cygnus Orb-D1 Is Launched Into Space
2013	Nov	18	NASA Launches The MAVEN Probe To Mars
2013	Dec	01	China Launches Yutu. Lunar Exploration Mission
2014	Apr	17	NASA Confirms Earth-size Planet Discovered

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