Space Travel Time Line

1957 to 2012

1957•The USSR launches the satellite “Sputnik 1”•The USSR Launches “Sputnik 2” with Laika the dog inside

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8r-4ZTfSVHc

1958• The USA creates NASA–A government agency to oversee all space missions.–NASA stands for National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

1961• The USSR puts First human

in orbit, Yuri A. Gagarin.

- Alan Sheppard the first American in space soon after.

1968•Apollo 8 is the first manned voyage to orbit the moon (10 times)

1961 ContinuedPresident Kennedy challenges the American people to place a person on the moon by the end of the decade.- Called it Project Apollo.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g25G1M4EXrQ

1969•Apollo 11 lands on the

Moon•Neil Armstrong takes the

1st steps on the Moon• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMINSD

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1977•Voyager 1 Space Probe–The first vehicle to leave our solar system. It was sent to study Jupiter/Saturn.

1981•The Shuttle Columbia is launched, it is the 1st reusable vehicle

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cuzuWmno-X8

1990•Space Shuttle Discovery launches the Hubble Telescope

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QBLniTpWSE

1998•Work begins on the ISS–International Space Station.–Still in orbit today, doing research and experiments to learn more about space.

2011•President Obama cancelled

the shuttle mission.• Private companies would

be the only ones carrying humans into space.

The Future• New Horizons will reach Pluto to

study its surface in 2015.• NASA is working with private

companies like SpaceX to build Orion MPCV which will send humans farther into space than they have ever been.