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Saturday, February 11, 2023

Basic timeline of the spaceflight

This post is a basic timeline of the spaceflight. There are 9 events listed below chronologically.

• 1957: Soviet Union launches Sputnik 1 as first artificial satellite
• 1958: NASA is formed
• 1958: United States launches Explorer 1 artificial satellite
• 1961: Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human in space (Vostok program)
• 1969: Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin become the first humans to walk on the moon (Apollo 11)
• 1998: International Space Station is launched
• 2000: Blue Origin is founded by Jeff Bezos
• 2002: SpaceX is founded by Elon Musk
• 2020: first commercial mission to the International Space Station (SpaceX)

Sources

Wikipedia: History of spaceflight, Blue Origin, International Space Station, NASA