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 sam...
It was the first craft to land and operate on an asteroid. It landed on the asteroid in 2001.
First major catastrophe for NASA, when space shuttle Challenger explodes 73 seconds after takeoff with seven crewmembers aboard.
Guion S. Bluford, Jr., becomes first black man in space.
Sally Ride becomes first American woman in space.
United States launches its first experimental space station, the Skylab.
Astronauts Edwin Aldrin and Neil Armstrong become the first men to walk on the moon.
In Apollo 1 a flash fire breaks out during a launch pad test, killing three astronauts: Virgil Grissom, Edward White, and Roger Chaffee.
This was when the first lady (Valentina Tereshkova) went into space.
Launch of Friendship 7 (also part of the Mercury Project) makes astronaut John Glenn the first American to go into orbit. Total flight time was just shy of five hours.
With the launch of Freedom 7, Alan Shepard becomes the first American man in space.
Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human to enter space and return safely.
NASA is formed after Congress passes the National Aeronautics and Space Act.
It was when the Soviet Union first launched Sputnik 1 into space.
The first rocket to reach space was a prototype of the German V-2 Rocket, on a test flight.
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