Name
Block
Date:
July 20, 1969
Astronauts Edwin "Buzz"
Aldrin and Neil
Armstrong become the
first men to walk on the
moon.
Oct 4, 1957
Soviet Union
launches Sputnik I.
October 1, 1958
NASA is formed after
Congress passes the
National Aeronautics and
Space Act.
April 12, 1961
Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin
becomes the first human to
enter space and return safely.
Nov. 13, 1971
Sept. 1976
April 12 1981
First Space Shuttle
Launch
Water Discovered on
Mars.
Mariner 9 orbits
Mars.
June 18, 1983
Sally Ride becomes first
American woman in space
with launch of shuttle
mission STS-7 aboard the
space shuttle Challenger
August 30, 1983
Guion S. Bluford, Jr., becomes
first black man in space with
launch of shuttle mission STS8 aboard the space shuttle
Challenger
January 28, 1986
First major catastrophe for NASA, when
space shuttle Challenger (mission STS-51L)
explodes 73 seconds after takeoff with
seven crewmembers aboard.
Name
Block
Date:
Feb 20, 1986
Mir Station
Launched
Apr 24, 1990
Hubble Telescope
Launched
Jul 4, 1997
Mars Pathfinders Lands on
Mars
November
20, 1998
February 1, 2003
Crew of seven astronauts, including the first Israeli astronaut, is lost after
a 16-day mission when the Columbia space shuttle explodes on re-entry.
The accident was later attributed to damage sustained to foam insulation
and has led NASA to understand how to safely repair similar damage on
later missions
First piece
of the
Internationa
l Space
Station (ISS)
is launched
January 2004
Spirit and Opportunity arrive on
the Martian surface. They
continue to explore the Red
Planet today
September 8, 2004
After capturing particles from the
sun, Genesis makes a dramatic crash
landing in Utah when its parachute
fails to deploy. Despite the landing,
scientists still managed to recover
and study the samples
August 4, 2007
Phoenix Lander launches on its way to
explore the northern pole of Mars