Cassini explores Saturn
2004–2017 · Event
Thirteen years among the rings and moons: methane seas on Titan, geysers on Enceladus, and a deliberate final plunge into Saturn itself.
On these timelines: Spaceflight, Master, Science & Technology
More from Spaceflight
- Apollo 8 orbits the Moon (1968)
- Goddard launches the first liquid-fuel rocket (1926)
- First Space Shuttle flight (1981)
- V-2: the first rocket to reach space (1942)
- Apollo 17: the last Moon landing (1972)
- Tsiolkovsky's rocket equation (1903)
- First spacewalk (1965)
- Mir space station (1986)
Around 2004
- War on Terror (2001)
- Arab Spring (2010)
- One More Night (Maroon 5) (2012)
- September 11 attacks (2001)
- Pop music: the 2000s (2000)
- Pop music: the 2010s (2010)
- Crazy in Love (Beyoncé featuring Jay-Z) (2003)
- Boom Boom Pow (The Black Eyed Peas) (2009)
- Burn (Usher) (2004)
- Fantasy (Mariah Carey) (1995)