Space Exploration Timeline
1957 sputnik 1 4 october 1957 earth orbiter sputnik 2 3 november 1957 earth orbiter vanguard tv3 6 december 1957 attempted earth orbiter launch failure 1958 explorer 1 1 february 1958 earth orbiter vanguard 1 17 march 1958 earth orbiter pioneer 0 17 august 1958 attempted lunar orbit launch failure.
Space exploration timeline. August 6 nasa s curiosity rover successfully landed on mars. Treatise on the motion of rockets. 1813 first exposition of the rocket equation based on newton s third law of motion.
1959 launch of big joe capsule assembled at lewis for project mercury on september 9. 1960s the space program. We human beings have been venturing into space since october 4 1957 when the union of soviet socialist republics u s s r launched sputnik the first artificial satellite to orbit earth.
August nasaĆ¢ s voyager 1 probe launched in 1977 entered interstellar space. As large as a car it carried. President eisenhower approves official nasa seal designed by jim modarelli on november 29.
1958 nasa officially begins operations on october 1 and the aerl becomes lewis research center. Event leading to space exploration country researcher s ref s 1610 first telescopic observation of the night sky.