Spaceflight
Explore Spaceflight on Ever-When, an interactive timeline of history from the Big Bang to the present day.
Key events on this timeline
- Apollo 11 moon landing (1969)
- Sputnik launch (1957)
- Yuri Gagarin: first human in space (1961)
- The Space Race (1957)
- Apollo 8 orbits the Moon (1968)
- Hubble Space Telescope launched (1990)
- Space Shuttle Challenger disaster (1986)
- Goddard launches the first liquid-fuel rocket (1926)
- First Space Shuttle flight (1981)
- James Webb Space Telescope launched (2021)
- Apollo 13 crisis (1970)
- NASA founded (1958)
- V-2: the first rocket to reach space (1942)
- Apollo 17: the last Moon landing (1972)
- International Space Station assembled (1998)
- First woman in space (Tereshkova) (1963)
- Voyager 1 launched (1977)
- Tsiolkovsky's rocket equation (1903)
- Earthrise photograph (1968)
- Apollo program announcement (1961)
- First spacewalk (1965)
- Mir space station (1986)
- Shenzhou 5: China's first astronaut (2003)
- Wernher von Braun (1912)
- John Glenn orbits the Earth (1962)
- SpaceX Demo-2: commercial crew flies (2020)
- SpaceX lands a first-stage booster (2015)
- First space station (Salyut 1) (1971)
- Space Shuttle Columbia disaster (2003)
- Alan Shepard: first American in space (1961)