Milestones
The first man to walk on the moon
Who is Neil Armstrong
This man was the first American to orbit the Earth, aboard the Friendship 7 spacecraft
Who is John Glenn?
The Venera 1 mission performed the first flyby of this nearby planet
What is Venus?
The Huygens spacecraft landed on Titan, the largest moon of this gas giant
What is Saturn?
This massive spacecraft is a collaborative project between 5 space agencies.
What is the International Space Station (ISS)?
Launched aboard the Vostok 1 spacecraft, this man became the first to reach space.
Who is Yuri Gagarin?
NASA has worked with this company that specializes in developing reusable rockets
What is SpaceX?
Who is Alexei Leonov?
The Artemis Program has the goal of returning crew to this celestial body
What is the moon?
The Soviet Union assembled this first modular space station from 1986 to 1996
What is Mir?
Robert Goddard pioneered this type of rocket
What are liquid-fueled rockets?
This rocket supported the Apollo program and allowed for human exploration of the moon
What is the Saturn V?
Until 2020, this three-seat spacecraft was the only way people could get to space after the Space Shuttle retired in 2011
What is the Soyuz?
The Hayabusa developed by Japan returned the first sample of this small body in the solar system
What is an asteroid?
The Salyut 1 was the first of these long-term habitats in low Earth orbit.
What is space station?
The first artificial satellite
What is Sputnik 1
The Gemini missions pioneered this technique of combining spacecraft later used in the Apollo program
What is docking?
This rocket was designed to compete with the Apollo program but failed on all four launch attempts
What is the N1?
Along with its lander module, Philae, this probe carried out the first landing on a comet
What is Rosetta?
This first American space station was a converted S-IVB stage of the massive Saturn V rocket
What is Skylab?