History of Space Flights
1942 - First suborbital flight at an altitude of 188 km made in Germany for non-peaceful use
1957 - Sputnik 1: First artificial satellite of Earth made in the USSR
1960 - Sputnik 5: First successful return of animals from orbit made in the USSR
1961 - Vostok 1: First manned space flight made in the USSR, Yuri Gagarin became the first man in space
1964 - Mariner 4: First flyby of Mars made in the USA
1964 - Voskhod 3: First manned spacewalk made in the USSR
1969 - Apollo 11: First manned flight to the moon made in the USA, Neil Armstrong became the first person to set foot on the moon
1970 - First lunar rover made in the USSR
1971 - Mars 3: First soft landing on Mars made in the USSR
1971 - Salyut 1: First space station made in the USSR
1972 - First flight to Jupiter made in the USA
1973 - First and only flight to Mercury made in the USA
1975 - Venera 9: First device in the orbit of Venus and first photos from the surface of another planet made in the USSR
1975 - Viking 1: First successful mission to the surface of Mars made in the USA
1977 - Voyager 1: Fastest vehicle flying outside the solar system made in the USA
1981 - Space Shuttle Columbia: First mass-produced reusable spacecraft launched from the Kennedy Space Center in the USA
1986 - Station Mir: First modular space station made in the USSR
1990 - Hubble Space Telescope: Largest orbiting telescope delivered by Shuttle Atlantis
1996 - NEAR Shoemaker: First soft landing on an asteroid made in the USA
1996 - Mars Pathfinder: First rover on Mars made in the USA
1997 - Cassini-Huygens: First artificial satellite of Saturn and first landing on Saturn's moon Titan made by means of the USA, EU, and Italy
1998 - International Space Station: First block Zarya, the largest orbital station made in Russia
2004 - Rosetta: First landing on a comet made in the European Union
2006 - New Horizons: First exploration of the dwarf planet Pluto made in the USA
2015 - First production reusable rocket made in the USA
