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Civilian to use a commercial space flight, and journalist to report on space from outer space: Toyohiro Akiyama – Japan: Soyuz TM-10, Soyuz TM-11: Japan 2 December 1990 – 10 December 1990 Three women in space at the same time Millie Hughes-Fulford, Tamara E. Jernigan, M. Rhea Seddon: STS-40: USA 5 June 1991 – 14 June 1991 Three-person ...
The year 1966 saw the peak and the end of the Gemini program.The program proved that docking in space and human EVA's could be done safely. It saw the first launch of the Saturn IB rocket, an important step in the Apollo program, and the launch of Luna 9, the first spacecraft to make a soft landing on a celestial object (the Moon).
1969 saw humanity step onto another world for the first time. On 20 July 1969, the Apollo 11 Lunar Module, Eagle, landed on the Moon's surface with two astronauts aboard. . Days later the crew of three returned safely to Earth, satisfying U.S. President John F. Kennedy's challenge of 25 May 1961, that "this nation should commit itself to achieving the goal, before this decade is out, of ...
1985 June 11 USSR First aerostat balloon in the atmosphere of Venus Vega 1 probe 1986 January 24 USA First Uranus flyby Voyager 2: 1986 February 19 USSR First module of the first modular space station launched, marking the start of the orbital assembly Mir Core Module: 1989 August 25 USA First Neptune flyby Voyager 2: 1990 February 11 USSR
Start date/time Duration End time Spacecraft Crew Remarks 18 March 08:34 12 minutes: 08:47 Voskhod 2: Alexei Leonov: First EVA in history. [1] Leonov had difficulty fitting back into the spacecraft due to spacesuit stiffness in vacuum.
Low Earth Magnetospheric: 11 May 2002 [3] Successful Ceased operations on 12 January 1972 6 June 04:55:09 [1] Soyuz Baikonur 1/5 Soyuz 11: Low Earth (Salyut 1) Crewed: 29 June 23:16:52 [16] Spacecraft failure Crewed flight with three cosmonauts. First mission to occupy a space station, and only mission to occupy Salyut 1.
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First human-piloted space flight (Alan Shepard). First human-crewed suborbital flight. USA Freedom 7: 19 May 1961: First planetary flyby (within 100,000 km of Venus – no data returned). USSR Venera 1: 6 August 1961: First crewed space flight lasting over twenty four hours by Gherman Titov, who is also the first to suffer from space sickness ...