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Chronology of Space Travel

1957 Russia launched Sputnik I, first man-made satellite in orbit,
: and Sputnik II carrying the dog Laika.
1958 USA launched Explorer I and Pioneer III discovered Van
: Allen Radiation belts.
1959 Russia launched Lunik I, Lunik IIand Lunik III, and
: photographed the hidden side of the Moon.
1960 USA launched Explorer VII. USSR launched Lunik IV with
: dogs Belka and Strelka. Put them in Orbit and brought them
back.
1961 Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin made man's first space
: flight (one orbit). Second Russian spaceman Gherman Titov
made 24 hours (17 orbit) flight in Vostok II.
1962 First American John Glenn made three orbits. US Ranger 4
: was the first to reach Moon.Russia sent first probe on
Mars.Russian cosmonauts Papel Popovick and Audrian
Nikolayev floated in space.
1963 Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman to orbit the
: globe more then 48 times.
1964 Russia sent Voskhod I with three men on board (first time
: more than one person).
1965 From Voskhod II Russian Alexei Leonov walked in space for
: 10 minutes. From Gemini Edward White made first
American space walk. Wally Schirra and Tom Stafford made
space rendevous when they brought US spaceship Gemini 6
within one foot of Gemini 7.
1966 Russian Luna 9 made soft landing on Moon and sent TV
: pictures. US surveyor I made first first soft landing on
Moon.
1967 Space disasters. 3 Americans and 1 Russian Spaceman
: were killed in their crafts due to mishap.
1969 Russian probes Venera 5 and 6 landed on Venus returning
: data.American astronaut Neil Armstrong became the first
man to walk on Moon on July 20. Americans made second

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landing on Moon on November 14.

1970 Russia soft landed Luna 17 (unmanned) on Moon used first
: propelled Vehicle 8-wheel Lunokhod, on Moon for
exploration.
1971 Alan shepard and Edgar Mitchell made third landing on
: Moon with Apollo 14. David Scott and James Irwin made
fourth landing on Moon by using the first artificial satellite of
Mars.Russia launched Salyut space station. Soyuz II docked
with Salyut in space. Russian Capsule from Mars 2 crashed
on Mars surface on 21 November.
1972 America launched Pioneer 10 on 1000 million km flight to
: Jupiter. Pioneer 10 passed through Jupiter belt and passed
Jupiter transmitting pictures. It is the first man made object
scheduled to escape solar system. 6th and last Apollo
mission of USA landed on Moon in December, and
astronauts Cernan and Schmitt made a record 75 hour stay
on Moon and collected lunar samples.
1973 America launched Pioneer 11 towards jupiter, and also sent
: Skylab space station in orbit.Also, Skylab 2,3 and 4 were
launched.
1974 Mariner 10 of USA passed Venus and Mercury for man's first
: close look at these. Russia sent another Salyut space
station.
1975 First US-USSR mission in space. Soyuz 19 launched (USSR)
: on July 15 and Apollo 18 (USA) launched 7 1/2 hours later
docked successfully on July 17.India's Arya Bhatta was
launched.
1976- 90 space flights in 9 years, 50 by USSR and 40 by USA. The
84 : first space shuttle Columbia was launched in 1981 and
returned to earth after 54 hours in space. It can be to
launch satellites. US launched challenger which put Indian's
multi-purpose satellite INSAT-1B in Orbit. India's Rohini
Satellite was launched into orbit in April 1983. On 9 April,
1984, India became the 14th nation to have sent a man
(Sq.Ldr.Rakesh Sharma) into space. On July 25, 1984,
Svetlana Savitskaya (USSR) became the first woman to
walk in space. Also,Mrs. Sullivan was the first US woman to

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walk in space.
1987 Soviet Flt. Cdr. Romananko made a record of over 237 days
: stay in space.
1989 US Spaceship Voyager came close to the planet Neptune in
: August.
1990 Japanese Toyohiro Akiyama was in space and broadcast
: daily from there. He was the first journalist to go in space.
1991 USA launched shuttle Atlantis with 5 member crew to
: launch satellite that would peer into exploding suns,cosmic
enigmas and other features. US astronomers discovered the
biggest galaxy 60 times bigger than our own Milky way.
British Scientists detected an orbiting supposed to be a
planet outside our solar system.
1992 Russian cosmonaut,Sergei Krialev returned after longest
: stay in space (312 days). USA launched shuttle Endeavour
to rescue a failed satellite.
1993 Both USA and Russia continued with space programmes,
: NASA's Mars observe probe transmitted its first close up
photos of the Maritiam surface.
1994 Space walk of first Japanese woman chiaki Mukai. The
: collision of comet Shoemaker Levy-9 with Jupiter was
observed from earth.

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