World Space Week 2023

Space Education Research Lab

National Center of GIS and Space Applications
Institute of Space Technology, Islamabad

13. Space Timeline: Time Travel

Sr.No Mission Name Country Launh Dates Mission Breif

1 Sputnik 1 Soviet Union 10/4/1957 First Artificial Satellite

2 Vanguard 1 USA 3/17/1958 First Solar-Powered Satellite

3 Luna 1 (Soviet Union) Soviet Union 1/2/1959 First Human-made Object to Reach the Moon

4 Luna 2 Soviet Union 9/12/1959 First Human-made Object to Reach the Moon

5 Vostok 1 Soviet Union 4/12/1961 Yuri Gagarin's First Human Spaceflight

6 Mercury-Redstone 3 USA 5/5/1961 Alan Shepard's Suborbital Flight

7 Telstar 1 USA 7/10/1962 First Communications Satellite

8 Syncom 3 USA 8/19/1964 First Geostationary Satellite

9 Luna 9 Soviet Union 1/31/1966 First Soft Landing on the Moon

10 Surveyor 1 USA 5/30/1966 First US Soft Landing on the Moon

11 Venera 4 Soviet Union 6/12/1967 First Probe to Send Data from Another Planet

12 Apollo 8 USA 12/21/1968 First Manned Mission to Orbit the Moon

13 Apollo 10 USA 5/18/1969 Manned Lunar Orbit and Lunar Module Tests

14 Apollo 11 USA 7/16/1969 First Manned Moon Landing

15 Apollo 13 USA 4/11/1970 Manned Lunar Landing Mission

Luna 16 (Soviet
16 Soviet Union 9/12/1970 Lunar Sample Return Mission
Union)

Luna 16 (Soviet
17 Soviet Union 9/12/1970 Lunar Sample Return Mission
Union)

Luna 17 (with
18 Soviet Union 11/10/1970 Carried Lunokhod 1, First Lunar Rover
Lunokhod 1)

19 Apollo 14 USA 1/31/1971 Manned Lunar Landing Mission

20 Mariner 9 USA 5/30/1971 First Satellite to Orbit Another Planet

21 Pioneer 10 USA 3/2/1972 First Spacecraft to Leave the Solar System

22 Skylab USA 5/14/1973 First American Space Station

23 Mariner 10 USA 11/3/1973 First Mission to Mercury

24 Venera 9 Soviet Union 6/8/1975 First Orbiter and Lander on Venus

25 Viking 1 USA 8/20/1975 First Successful Mars Landing

26 Viking 2 USA 9/9/1975 Second Viking Orbiter, Lander on Mars

27 Voyager 1 USA 9/5/1977 First Spacecraft to Reach Interstellar Space

28 Ariane 1 France 12/24/1979 First Ariane Rocket

29 STS-1 (Columbia) USA 4/12/1981 First Flight of Space Shuttle Columbia

30 Venera 13 Soviet Union 10/30/1981 First Color Images from Venus' Surface

STS-51-L
31 USA 1/28/1986 Challenger Disaster
(Challenger)

Soviet
32 Mir 2/20/1986 Soviet/Russian Space Station
Union/Russia

Soviet
33 Buran 11/15/1988 First and Only Soviet Spaceplane Flight
Union/Russia

34 Akash (Missile) India 5/25/1989 India's Surface-to-Air Missile

Hubble Space
35 USA 4/24/1990 Space Telescope
Telescope

36 Badr-1 (Pakistan) Pakistan 7/16/1990 Pakistan's First Satellite

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37 Clementine USA 1/25/1994 First Deep Space Mission after Cold War

38 PAKSAT-1 (Pakistan) Pakistan 1/31/1996 Pakistan-China Joint Satellite

Mars Pathfinder (with

39 USA 12/4/1996 First Successful Mars Rover Mission
Sojourner Rover)

40 Deep Space 1 USA 10/24/1998 First Interplanetary Ion-Propelled Spacecraft

ISS (First Module

41 USA/Russia 11/20/1998 First Module Launch of the International Space Station
Launch)

42 Shenzhou 1 China 11/20/1999 China's Manned Spacecraft

43 Badr-B (Pakistan) Pakistan 12/10/2001 Upgrade of Badr-1 (Pakistan's Satellite)

Rosetta (with Philae

44 ESA 3/2/2004 Comet Rendezvous, Sample Return Mission
Lander)

45 New Horizons USA 1/19/2006 First Mission to Pluto

46 Chang'e 1 China 10/24/2007 China's First Lunar Probe

47 Falcon 1 USA 9/28/2008 First Privately Developed Liquid-Fueled Rocket to Reach Orbit

48 Chandrayaan-1 India 10/22/2008 India's First Lunar Probe

49 Falcon 9 USA 6/4/2010 First Flight of SpaceX's Falcon 9 Rocket

PAKSAT-1R
50 Pakistan 8/12/2011 Replacement for PAKSAT-1 (Pakistan's Satellite)
(Pakistan)

Mars Science
51 USA 11/26/2011 Mars Rover Mission with Curiosity
Laboratory

52 MAVEN USA 11/18/2013 Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution Mission

53 Hayabusa2 Japan 12/3/2014 Japan's Asteroid Sample Return Mission

54 GSLV Mk III India 12/18/2014 India's Heaviest Rocket

55 InSight USA 5/5/2018 Mars Lander to Study the Planet's Interior

56 PRSS-1 (Pakistan) Pakistan 7/9/2018 Pakistan Remote Sensing Satellite-1

57 PakTES-1A (Pakistan) Pakistan 7/10/2018 Technology Evaluation Satellite (Pakistan)

58 Parker Solar Probe USA 8/12/2018 First Mission to Touch the Sun's Atmosphere

59 Chang'e 4 China 12/7/2018 First Soft Landing on the Far Side of the Moon

60 Chandrayaan-2 India 7/22/2019 India's Second Lunar Mission

61 Tianwen-1 China 7/23/2020 China's Mars Mission for Orbiter, Lander, and Rover

62 Perseverance USA 7/30/2020 Mars Rover Mission with Ingenuity

63 Perseverance USA 7/30/2020 Mars Rover to Search for Signs of Past Microbial Life

64 Artemis I USA 11/16/2021 Uncrewed Mission Around the Moon for Artemis Program

65 JWST Launch USA 12/25/2021 James Webb Telescope Launch Mission

66 Chandrayaan-3 India 7/14/2023 India Successful Lunar Rover Landing Mission

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