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===1942-1975===
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<sup>1</sup>Project Vanguard was transferred from the NRL to NASA immediately before launch.

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In addition, virtually all manned duration records have been set by the USSR, due largely to their Salyut/Mir series of space stations.

Revision as of 19:10, 9 December 2006

1942-1975

Date First Success Country Mission Name
1944 Rocket to reach 100km (boundary to space) Nazi Germany V2 rocket, military program
July 1946 Animals in space (fruit flies) USA-ABMA V2
August 21, 1957 Intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) USSR R-7 Semyorka/SS-6 Sapwood
October 4, 1957 Artificial satellite
Signals from space 		USSR Sputnik 1
November 3, 1957 Animal in orbit (dog) USSR Sputnik 2
January 31, 1958 Detection of Van Allen belts USA-ABMA Explorer I
December 18, 1958 Communications satellite USA-ABMA Project SCORE
January 2, 1959 Firing of a rocket in Earth orbit
Reaching escape velocity
Detection of solar wind 		USSR Luna 1
January 4, 1959 Orbit around the Sun USSR Luna 1
February 17, 1959 Weather satellite USA-NASA (NRL) Vanguard 2
August 7, 1959 Photo of Earth from space USA-NASA Explorer 6
September 13, 1959 Landing on another world (the Moon) USSR Luna 2
October 4, 1959 Photos of far side of the Moon USSR Luna 3
August 18, 1960 Reconnaissance satellite USA-Air Force KH-1 9009
1961 Launch from orbit
Mid-course corrections
Spin-stabilisation
Venus fly-by 		USSR Venera 1
April 12, 1961 Human in space
Human in orbit 		USSR Vostok 1
November 1, 1962 Mars flyby USSR Mars 1
June 16, 1963 Woman in space USSR Vostok 6
July 19, 1963 Reusable Manned Spacecraft (suborbital) USA-NASA X-15 Flight 90
October 12, 1964 Multi-man crew (3) USSR Voskhod 1
March 18, 1965 Extra-vehicular activity USSR Voskhod 2
April 6, 1965 Commercial communications satellite Intelsat Intelsat 1
December 15, 1965 Orbital rendezvous (parallel flight, no docking) USA-NASA Gemini 6A/Gemini 7
February 3, 1966 Soft landing on another world (the Moon)
Photos from another world 		USSR Luna 9
March 1, 1966 Landing on another planet (Venus) USSR Venera 3
April 3, 1966 Artificial satellite around another world (the Moon) USSR Luna 10
April 23, 1967 Spaceflight casualty USSR Soyuz 1
October 30, 1967 Unmanned rendezvous with docking USSR Cosmos 186/Cosmos 188
January 16, 1969 Manned docking and exchange of crew USSR Soyuz 4/Soyuz 5
July 21, 1969 Human on the Moon USA-NASA Apollo 11
September 24, 1970 Automatic sample return from the Moon USSR Luna 16
November 23, 1970 Lunar rover USSR Lunokhod 1
December 15, 1970 Soft landing on another planet (Venus)
Signals from another planet 		USSR Venera 7
April 23, 1971 Space station USSR Salyut 1
December 1971 Orbit around Mars USSR Mars 2
November 27, 1971 Mars landing USSR Mars 2
December 2, 1971 Soft Mars landing
signals from Mars surface 		USSR Mars 2
July 15, 1975 Multinational manned mission USSR USA-NASA Apollo-Soyuz Test Project
October 20, 1975 Orbit around another planet (Venus) USSR Venera 9
October 22, 1975 Photos from the surface of another planet (Venus) USSR Venera 9

Project Vanguard was transferred from the NRL to NASA immediately before launch.

Post-1975

Date First Success Country Mission Name
March 2 1978 Non-American and non-Soviet in space USSR Czechoslovakia Soyuz 28
April 12 1981 Reusable manned spacecraft (orbital) USA-NASA Columbia
March 1 1982 Venus soil samples & sound recording of another world USSR Venera 13
June 13 1983 Spacecraft beyond the orbit of Neptune USA-NASA Pioneer 10
July 25 1984 Extra-vehicular activity by a woman USSR Salyut 7
December 2 1990 Commercial manned-spaceflight USSR Japan Soyuz TM-11
July 7 1998 Submarine-launched spacecraft Russia K-407
April 28 2001 Space tourist Russia USA Soyuz TM-32
October 15 2003 Third nation to achieve manned spaceflight China Shenzhou 5
June 21 2004 Private human spaceflight / spacecraft (suborbital) USA-MAV SpaceShipOne 15P

In addition, virtually all manned duration records have been set by the USSR, due largely to their Salyut/Mir series of space stations.