|
Date
|
Country
|
First
|
1947 |
US |
person to break the sound barrier:
Charles "Chuck"
Yeager in a Bell X-1 plane
|
1952 |
Britain |
commercial jet liner:
deHavilland Comet 1 goes
into service
|
1957 |
USSR |
space satellite:
Sputnik 1 orbits Earth
|
1959 |
USSR |
space probe:
Luna 2 reaches the moon
|
1961 |
USSR |
person in space:
Yuri Gagarin orbits Earth in
Vostok I
|
1963 |
USSR |
woman in space:
Valentina Tereshkova
|
1968 |
USSR |
supersonic passenger jet flight:
TU-144
|
1969 |
US |
to walk on the moon:
Neil Armstrong and Edwin
("Buzz") Aldrin of the Apollo 11
mission
|
1971 |
USSR |
space station:
Salyut I is launched
|
1975 |
US/USSR |
joint Soviet-American space project:
Astronauts
aboard Apollo and Soyuz craft rendezvous in space
|
1981 |
US |
space shuttle:
United States launches reusable
space shuttle Columbia
|
