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Wilbur Wright

  • 5 Feb 1971

    NASA's Apollo 14 mission landed on the Moon.

  • 31 Jan 1971

    NASA's Apollo 14 spacecraft was launched and headed for the moon.

  • 10 Nov 1970

    The Soviet Union's Luna 17 uncrewed space mission launched.

  • 17 Aug 1970

    Venera 7 launched by the Soviet Union.

  • 13 Apr 1970

    An oxygen tank explodes on Apollo 13, leaving the spacecraft crippled.

  • 11 Apr 1970

    Apollo 13 was launched successfully but ran into difficulties two days later.

  • 13 Jul 1969

    The USSR's Luna 15 robotic spacecraft was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

  • 26 May 1969

    NASA's Apollo 10 mission returned to earth after successfully testing all possible elements of a Moon landing.

  • 21 May 1969

    NASA's Apollo 10 Spacecraft ran a test flight of the Lunar Lander Module close to the Moon’s surface.

  • 18 May 1969

    Apollo 10 was launched from the John F. Kennedy Space Center on a mission to the Moon.

  • 27 Mar 1969

    NASA launched its Mariner 7 space probe from Cape Canaveral atop an Atlas-Centaur rocket.

  • 13 Mar 1969

    Apollo 9 and its crew returned to Earth after a 10-day mission orbiting Earth.

  • 3 Mar 1969

    NASA launched Apollo 9 crewed mission.

  • 26 Oct 1968

    The Soyuz 3 spacecraft achieved the first Soviet space rendezvous with Soyuz 2.

  • 23 Apr 1967

    The Soviet Union launched the first crewed Soyuz mission, Soyuz 1.

  • 27 Jan 1967

    Apollo 1 test launch failed, and astronauts Gus Grissom, Ed White, and Roger B. Chaffee all died.

  • 11 Nov 1966

    NASA launched the Gemini program's tenth and final crewed spacecraft, Gemini 12.

  • 6 Nov 1966

    NASA's Lunar Orbiter 2 launched atop an Atlas Agena rocket from Cape Canaveral in Florida.

  • 18 Jul 1966

    NASA launched Gemini X, the tenth spaceflight of the Gemini program.

  • 31 Mar 1966

    Luna 10 was launched by the USSR and became the first satellite to orbit the moon.

  • 1 Mar 1966

    The Venera 3 space probe became the first human-made object to land on another planet.

  • 3 Feb 1966

    Luna 9 touches down on the Moon.

  • 3 Feb 1966

    The first weather satellite (ESSA-1) was launched into orbit from Cape Canaveral, Florida.

  • 16 Dec 1965

    The Pioneer 6 space probe was launched atop a Delta-E rocket.

  • 9 Dec 1965

    A giant ball of fire was seen arching across the sky from Michigan to Pennsylvania.

  • 4 Dec 1965

    The Gemini 7 launched with Frank Borman and Jim Lovell.

  • 26 Nov 1965

    France successfully launched their first satellite, Astérix, into Earth's orbit.

  • 16 Nov 1965

    The Soviet Union's Venera 3 space probe was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.

  • 29 Aug 1965

    The Gemini V spacecraft returned to Earth, landing in the Atlantic Ocean.

  • 14 Jul 1965

    Mars flyby of Mariner 4.

  • 8 Jun 1965

    Soviet spacecraft Luna 6, destined for a moon landing, failed after flying right past it.

  • 3 Jun 1965

    NASA launched the second crewed mission of the Gemini Space Program, Gemini 4.

  • 12 May 1965

    The Soviet Union's Luna 5 uncrewed spacecraft crash-landed on the Moon.

  • 9 May 1965

    The Luna 5 attempted to land on the Moon.

  • 6 Apr 1965

    The first commercial communications satellite is launched.

  • 24 Mar 1965

    Millions watch NASA spacecraft Ranger 9 crash into the Moon.

  • 28 Nov 1964

    NASA launched the Mariner 4 space probe on a mission to Mars.

  • 19 Aug 1964

    World's First Geostationary Satellite is Launched.

  • 28 May 1964

    NASA tested the Saturn I launch vehicle with a boilerplate Apollo spacecraft for the first time.

  • 2 Apr 1964

    The Soviet Union's Zond 1 space probe was launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome.

  • 29 Jan 1964

    A two-stage version of the Saturn I rocket was launched for the first time.

  • 25 Jan 1964

    NASA launched the Echo 2 experimental communications satellite.

  • 26 Jul 1963

    Syncom 2, the world's first geosynchronous communications satellite is launched.

  • 19 Jun 1963

    The TIROS-7 meteorological satellite was launched atop a Thor-Delta rocket.

  • 13 Dec 1962

    NASA launched the first-ever active repeater communications satellite.

  • 11 Aug 1962

    The Soviet Space Agency Launches Vostok 3.

  • 24 May 1962

    Scott Carpenter orbited the Earth three times in the US Aurora 7.

  • 8 May 1962

    NASA's Atlas-Centaur rocket exploded mid-air during its first test flight.

  • 26 Apr 1962

    Ariel 1, the first British-American satellite, was launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida, US.

  • 26 Jan 1962

    The Ranger 3 robotic spacecraft launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida.

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