Spacecraft

Eventos (14)

• 1959

  1/4 — Luna 1 becomes the first spacecraft to reach the vicinity of the Moon.

• 1961

  11/29 — Project Mercury: Mercury-Atlas 5 Mission: Enos, a chimpanzee, is launched into space. The spacecraft orbits the Earth twice and splashes down off the coast of Puerto Rico.

• 1962

  12/14 — NASA's Mariner 2 becomes the first spacecraft to fly by Venus.

• 1965

  5/12 — The Soviet spacecraft Luna 5 crashes on the Moon.

• 1965

  11/16 — Venera program: The Soviet Union launches the Venera 3 space probe toward Venus, which will be the first spacecraft to reach the surface of another planet.

• 1966

  3/1 — La sonda espacial soviética Venera 3 se estrella en Venus, convirtiéndose en el primer vehículo espacial en aterrizar en la superficie de otro planeta.

• 1966

  6/2 — Surveyor program: Surveyor 1 lands in Oceanus Procellarum on the Moon, becoming the first U.S. spacecraft to soft-land on another world.

• 1972

  2/21 — The Soviet unmanned spaceship Luna 20 lands on the Moon.

• 1973

  4/6 — Launch of Pioneer 11 spacecraft.

• 1975

  2/9 — El transbordador espacial soviético Soyuz 17 regresa a la Tierra.

• 1988

  9/7 — Abdul Ahad Mohmand, the first Afghan in space, returns aboard the Soviet spacecraft Soyuz TM-5 after nine days on the Mir space station.

• 2008

  9/28 — SpaceX launches the first private spacecraft, the Falcon 1 into orbit.

• 2009

  10/9 — Primer impacto lunar de las naves Centaur y LCROSS como parte del Programa Robótico de Prólogo Lunar de la NASA.

• 2010

  12/8 — With the second launch of the SpaceX Falcon 9 and the first launch of the SpaceX Dragon, SpaceX becomes the first private company to successfully launch, orbit and recover a spacecraft.