1966 | Luna-9 First soft touchdown on Moon. TV returned from surface. |
1984 | Launch of STS-11 - Brand, Gibson, McCandless, Stewart, McNair. |
1994 | Launch of STS-60 - Bolden, Reightler, Chang-Diaz, Sega, Krikalev, Davis. Spacehab, Wake Shield-1. |
1995 | Launch of STS-63 - Weatherbee, Collins, Foale, Harris, Janice Voss, Titov. MIR rendezvous, SPARTAN, EVA. |
1960 | Discoverer-9 Launch. First stage early cutoff. Failed to orbit. |
1961 | Sputnik-7 Launch. Test flight in preparation for Sputnik-8. |
1971 | Apollo-14 Touchdown Moon. Shepard and Mitchell. |
1974 | Mariner 10 took first close-range photo of Venus. |
1974 | Mariner-10 Flyby of Venus (3,585 miles). |
1987 | Soyuz TM-2 Launch. Romanenko, Laveykin. Dock with Mir. |
1971 | First time a golf ball was hit on the Moon. |
1995 | First rendezvous of a Space Shuttle with MIR. Jim Weatherbee flies Discovery to within 37 feet of MIR station. |
2009 | Launch of NOAA 19, the last of the civil Polar Orbiting Environmental System satellites. |
2018 | First launch of Falcon Heavy, with simultaneous landings of its two side cores at LZ-1 and LZ-2. Test payload was Elon Musk's Tesla Roadster car. |
2020 | Return of Koch (after 329 days), Skvortsov, and Parmitano (after 201 days) aboard Soyuz MS-13. |
1977 | Soyuz-24 Launch. Gorbatko, Glazkov. Dock with Salyut-5. |
1984 | First Manned Maneuvering Unit Flight (Bruce McCandless). |
2001 | Launch of STS-98 - Cockrell, Polansky, Curbeam, Ivins, Jones. ISS Assembly Flight 5A, US Destiny Lab. |
2008 | Launch of STS-122, Atlantis to ISS with Columbus module. Frick, Poindexter, Love, Melvin, Walheim, Schlegel (ESA) and Eyharts (ESA, joining Expedition 16). Tani returned after 121 days. |
1974 | Skylab-4 3rd Crew returns from 84 day Mission. |
1984 | Soyuz-T-10B/T-11 Launch. Kizim, Solovyev, Atkov. Dock with Salyut-7. |
2010 | Launch of STS-130. Endeavour to ISS Zamka, Virts, Hire, Robinson, Patrick, Behnken. Tranquility node and the cupola. Iconic photo of Shuttle silhouetted on the horizon during approach. |
1971 | Apollo-14 Splashdown 9 days. |
1975 | Soyuz-17 Lands. New Soviet endurance record of 29 days 14 hrs. |
2001 | US Destiny Laboratory docked with ISS. |
2021 | UAE's Misabar Al'amal (Hope Probe) enters Mars orbit. |