Date;Mission_Achievements;Country;Organization;Mission_Name
16/03/1926;Goddard launches the first liquid fueled rocket;USA;Robert H. Goddard;
25/11/1933;Russian Group of Study of Reactive Motion (GIRD) launches the first Russian liquid-fueled rocket;USSR;Sergey Korolev (group leader) Friedrich Zander (designer);
01/01/1942;First rocket to reach 62mi(100 km) from the Earth's surface (boundary of space)(precise date unknown);Germany;;V2 rocket - military program
10/05/1946;First space research flight (cosmic radiation experiments);USA;;Captured and improved V2 rocket
22/05/1946;First U.S.-designed rocket to reach edge of space (80 km (49 mi));USA;;Wac Corporal 
10/10/1946;First pictures of earth from 62mi(100 km);USA;;V2 
01/01/1947;First animals in space (fruit flies)(precise date unknown);USA;ABMA;V2 
21/08/1957;First intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM);USSR;;R-7 Semyorka/SS-6 Sapwood 
04/10/1957;First artificial satellite - First signals from space;USSR;;Sputnik 1
03/11/1957;First animal in orbit - the dog Laika;USSR;;Sputnik 2
31/01/1958;Confirmed the existence of the Van Allen belts;USA;ABMA;Explorer 1
17/03/1958;First solar powered satellite;USA;NRL;Vanguard 1
18/12/1958;First communications satellite;USA;ABMA;Project SCORE
02/01/1959;First firing of a rocket in Earth orbit - First reaching Earth escape velocity - First detection of solar wind;USSR;;Luna 1
04/01/1959;First man-made object in heliocentric orbit;USSR;;Luna 1
17/02/1959;First weather satellite;USA;NRL - NASA;Vanguard 2
28/02/1959;First satellite in a Polar orbit;USA;DARPA;Discoverer 1
07/08/1959;First photograph of Earth from orbit;USA;NASA;Explorer 6
13/09/1959;First impact into another world (the Moon;USSR;;Luna 2
04/10/1959;First photos of far side of the Moon;USSR;;Luna 3
01/04/1960;First Imaging weather satellite;USA;NASA;TIROS-1
05/07/1960;First reconnaissance satellite;USA;NRL;GRAB-1
11/08/1960;First satellite recovered intact from orbit;USA;Air Force;Discoverer 13
12/08/1960;First passive communications satellite;USA;NASA;Echo 1A
18/08/1960;First photo reconnaissance satellite;USA;Air Force;KH-1 9009
19/08/1960;First plants and animals to return alive from Earth orbit;USSR;;Sputnik 5
12/04/1961;First manned spaceflight (Yuri Gagarin) - First manned orbital flight;USSR;;Vostok 1
05/05/1961;Second nation to achieve manned spaceflight;USA;NASA;Mercury-Redstone 3
07/03/1962;First orbital solar observatory;USA;NASA;OSO-1
29/09/1962;First artificial satellite by a non-superpower[clarification needed];Canada;Alouette 1
14/12/1962;First planetary flyby (Venus closest approach 34 - 773 kilometers;USA;NASA;Mariner 2
16/06/1963;First woman in space (Valentina Tereshkova);USSR;;Vostok 6
19/07/1963;First reusable manned spacecraft (suborbital;USA;NASA;X-15 Flight 90
26/07/1963;First geosynchronous communications satellite;USA;NASA;Syncom 2
05/12/1963;First satellite navigation system;USA;Navy;NAVSAT
19/08/1964;First geostationary communications satellite;USA;NASA;Syncom 3
12/10/1964;First multi-man crew (three members;USSR;;Voskhod 1
18/03/1965;First extra-vehicular activity;USSR;;Voskhod 2
06/04/1965;First commercial communications satellite;Intelsat - Ltd.;Intelsat 1
14/07/1965;First Mars flyby (closest approach 9 - 846 kilometers;USA;NASA;Mariner 4
15/12/1965;First orbital rendezvous (parallel flight - no docking;USA;NASA;Gemini 6A/Gemini 7
03/02/1966;First soft landing on another world (the Moon) - First photos from another world;USSR;;Luna 9
01/03/1966;First impact into another planet (Venus;USSR;;Venera 3
16/03/1966;First orbital rendezvous (docking;USA;NASA;Gemini 8/Agena target vehicle
03/04/1966;First artificial satellite around another world (the Moon;USSR;;Luna 10
02/06/1966;Soft landing on the Moon - photos from the Moon;USA;NASA;Surveyor 1
23/04/1967;First spaceflight casualty;USSR;;Soyuz 1
30/10/1967;First unmanned rendezvous with docking;USSR;;Cosmos 1806/Cosmos 188
21/12/1968;First human orbiting of another celestial body (Moon;USA;NASA;Apollo 8
16/01/1969;First manned docking and exchange of crew;USSR;;Soyuz 04/Soyuz 5
21/07/1969;First human on the Moon and first space launch from a celestial body;USA;NASA;Apollo 11
19/11/1969;First rendezvous on the surface of a celestial body;USA;NASA;Apollo 102/Surveyor 3
24/09/1970;First automatic sample return from the Moon; USSR;;Luna 16
23/11/1970;First lunar rover;USSR;;Lunokhod 1
12/12/1970;First X-ray orbital observatory;USA;NASA;Uhuru (satellite)
15/12/1970;First soft landing on another planet (Venus) - First signals from another planet;USSR;;Venera 7
23/04/1971;First space station;USSR;;Salyut 1
15/06/1971;First Manned orbital observatory;USSR;;Orion 1
14/11/1971;First orbit around another planet (Mars;USA;NASA;Mariner 9
27/11/1971;First impact into Mars;USSR;;Mars 2
02/12/1971;First soft Mars landing - First signals from Mars surface;USSR;;Mars 3
03/03/1972;First human made object sent on escape trajectory away from the Sun;USA;NASA;Pioneer 10
15/07/1972;First mission to enter the asteroid belt and leave inner solar system;USA;NASA;Pioneer 10
09/11/1972;First geostationary communications satellite;Canada;Anik A1
03/12/1973;First travel through the asteroid belt and Jupiter flyby (at 130 - 000 km;USA;NASA;Pioneer 10
05/02/1974;Venus flyby at 5768 kilometers - first gravitational assist manoeuvre;USA;NASA;Mariner 10
29/03/1974;First Mercury flyby at 703 kilometers;USA;NASA;Mariner 10
15/07/1975;First multinational manned mission;USSR USA;NASA;Apollo-Soyuz Test Project
20/10/1975;First orbit around Venus;USSR;;Venera 9
22/10/1975;First photos from the surface of another planet (Venus;USSR;;Venera 9
20/07/1976;First photos and soil samples from the surface of Mars;USA;NASA;Viking Lander
26/01/1978;First real time remotely operated ultraviolet orbital observatory;USA;NASA) ESA UK-SERC;International Ultraviolet Explorer
02/03/1978;First Non-American and non-Soviet in space (Vladimr Remek;USSR Czechoslovakia;Soyuz 28
05/03/1979;Jupiter flyby (closest approach 349 - 000 km;USA;NASA;Voyager 1
01/09/1979;First Saturn flyby at 21 - 000 km;USA;NASA;Pioneer 11
12/11/1980;Saturn flyby (closest approach 124 - 000 kilometers;USA;NASA;Voyager 1
12/04/1981;First Reusable manned spacecraft (orbital; USA;NASA;STS-1
01/03/1982;First Venus soil samples & sound recording of another world;USSR;;Venera 13
25/01/1983;Infrared orbital observatory;USA;NASA) UK-SERC Netherlands-NIVR;IRAS
23/03/1983;Ultraviolet orbital observatory;USSR France;Astron
13/06/1983;First spacecraft beyond the orbit of Neptune (first spacecraft to pass beyond all Solar System planets;USA;NASA;Pioneer 10
25/07/1984;First extra-vehicular activity by a woman;USSR;;Salyut 7
24/01/1986;First Uranus flyby (closest approach 81 - 500 kilometers;USA;NASA;Voyager 2
19/02/1986;First consistently inhabited long-term research space station;USSR;;Mir
25/08/1989;First Neptune flyby;USA;NASA;Voyager 2
01/12/1989;Ultraviolet to gamma ray spectrum orbital observatory;USSR France Denmark Bulgaria;Granat
14/02/1990;First photograph of the whole solar system [2];USA;NASA;Voyager 1
24/04/1990;Optical orbital observatory;USA;NASA) ESA;Hubble Space Telescope
02/12/1990;First commercial manned-spaceflight;USSR Japan;Soyuz TM-11
21/10/1991;First asteroid flyby (951 Gaspra closest approach 1 - 600 kilometers;USA;NASA;Galileo
08/02/1992;First polar orbit around the Sun;USA;NASA) ESA;Ulysses
07/12/1995;First orbit of Jupiter;USA;NASA;Galileo
07/12/1995;First mission into the atmosphere of a gas giant (Jupiter;USA;NASA;Galileo's atmospheric entry probe
07/07/1998;First submarine-launched spacecraft;Russia;K-407
14/02/2000;First orbiting of an asteroid (433 Eros;USA;NASA;NEAR Shoemaker
02/11/2000;First resident crew;International Space Station;Expedition 1
12/02/2001;First landing on an asteroid (433 Eros;USA;NASA;NEAR Shoemaker
28/04/2001;First space tourist;Russia USA;Soyuz TM-32
15/10/2003;Third nation to achieve manned spaceflight;China;Shenzhou 5
04/01/2004;Free ranging Mars rover;USA;NASA;Spirit rover
25/01/2004;Free ranging Mars rover;USA;NASA;Opportunity rover
21/06/2004;First private human spaceflight/spacecraft (suborbital;USA;MAV;SpaceShipOne 15P
01/07/2004;First orbit of Saturn;USA;NASA) ESA ASI;CassiniHuygens
14/01/2005;First soft landing on Titan;ESA USA;NASA) ASI;CassiniHuygens