Space

Al Worden | Biography

Al Worden (1932 to 2020), United States Air Force test pilot and Apollo 15 Command Module Pilot. The 1971 mission, the deep-space EVA on the return leg, the Apollo 15 commemorative...

Buzz Aldrin | Biography

Buzz Aldrin (b. 1930), United States Air Force fighter pilot, MIT doctor of astronautics, NASA astronaut, Apollo 11 Lunar Module Pilot. Second human to walk on the Moon, 20 July...

L. Ron Hubbard | Biography

Lafayette Ronald Hubbard, the Nebraska-born American pulp-fiction writer who served as a US Navy lieutenant in the Pacific theatre during the Second World War, attended the January...

Soviet Union Launches Sputnik 1 -- First Artificial Satellite

NASA Established -- National Aeronautics and Space Act Signed into Law

Yuri Gagarin Becomes First Human in Space Aboard Vostok 1

Valentina Tereshkova Becomes First Woman in Space Aboard Vostok 6

Apollo 11 -- First Humans Land on the Moon

Apollo 17 -- Final Crewed Mission to the Moon

Hubble Space Telescope Deployed

International Space Station -- Zarya Control Module Launched into Orbit

New Horizons Completes First Pluto Flyby

SpaceX Lands First Orbital-Class Rocket Booster

SpaceX Crew Dragon Carries First Astronauts to ISS

Perseverance Rover Lands on Mars

James Webb Space Telescope Launches

Artemis I -- NASA's Space Launch System Sends Orion Beyond the Moon

First Private Company Lands on the Moon

Europa Clipper Launches Toward Jupiter

Artemis II Crew Splashes Down off California Coast

Artemis II Breaks Apollo 13 Distance Record and Completes Lunar Flyby

Artemis II: First Crewed Lunar Mission Since 1972