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Space timeline

Various amazing discoveries, events and travels where excelled about space from the first satellite to the launch of the first space station, take a look at some of these amazing events.

1957

Laika, the dog was the first creature to be sent in space through Sputnik 2

1959

The first glimpse of the Lunar surface from the Luna 3 spacecraft.

1961

Yuri Gagarin is the first human in space. He lasted for 108 minutes.

1963

Valentina Tereshkova on Vostok 6. It lasted for 70 hours, 50 minutes and orbited Earth 48 times.

1965

Alexei Arkipovich Leonov lasting about 10 minutes, he made the first space walk.

1969

Neil Amstrong was first to set his foot on the moon from Apollo 11.

1973

Skylab, the first US space station, went into orbit. It took 3 manned crews to perform around 300 experiments. At 1979 it came back to earth.

1977

Voyager 2 is launched followed by voyager 1. It is to study the outer-planetary systems which are still in function.

1986

The Russian space station Mir was launched. It was the permanent residence in space and was almost continued till 1999.

1998

The first par of ISS was launched.

2004

Cassini reached and sent pictures of Saturn's ring system.