Red Moon

Date 	Event 	Страна 	Project
21 August 1957 	The first intercontinental ballistic missile 	USSR 	R-7
4 October 1957 	The first artificial Earth satellite
The first signal from space
Detection of the Earth's radiation belts	USSR 	"Sputnik-1"
3 November 1957 	The first animal in orbit — Laika the dog 	USSR 	"Sputnik-2"
23 September 1958 	The first spacecraft to develop the second space velocity
The first case of "solar wind" detection
First flyby near the moon
The first artificial satellite of the Sun	USSR 	"Luna-1"
18 December 1958 	The first communications satellite 	USA 	SCORE
17 February 1959 	The first meteorological satellite 	USA 	"Avangard-2"
28 February 1959 	The first satellite in polar orbit 	USA 	"Discoverer-1"
20 June 1959 	The first spacecraft to reach the lunar surface 	USSR 	"Luna-2"
13 June 1959 	The first photograph of the far side of the moon 	USSR 	"Luna-3"
1 April 1960 	The first weather satellite with a TV camera 	USA 	TIROS-1
5 July 1960 	First reconnaissance satellite 	USA 	GRAB-1
10 August 1960 	The first vehicle to return from orbit with a payload 	USA 	"Discoverer-13"
12 August 1960 	First passive communications satellite 	USA 	"Echo-1"
18 August 1960 	The first reconnaissance satellite with a camera 	USA 	"Discoverer-14"
19—20 August 1960 	The first orbital flight of living beings — the dogs Belka and Strelka — with a successful return to Earth	USSR 	"Sputnik-4"
22 December 1960 	First orbiting manned space flight
The first man in space — Yuri Gagarin 	USSR 	"Vostok-1"
4 February 1961 	The first launch of a device from the orbit of an artificial Earth satellite
First course correction in flight
First spin stabilization	USSR 	"Venus-1"
24 March 1961 	First Manned Suborbital Space Flight (Alan Shepard) 	USA 	"Mercury Redstone 3"
17—18 April 1961 	The first manned space flight lasting more than a day (Gherman Titov) 	USSR 	"Vostok-2"
11—12 May 1961 	First uncontrolled flyby near Venus 	USSR 	"Venus-1"
22—25 August 1961 	The first manned space flight lasting more than three days (Grigory Nelyubov) 	USSR 	"Vostok-3"
10—15 февраля 1962 	The first manned space flight lasting more than five days (Andriyan Nikolaev) 	USSR 	"Vostok-4"
12—15 February 1962 	The first group flight of three spaceships 	USSR 	"Vostok-4"
"Vostok-5"
"Vostok-6"
7 March 1962 	First orbiting solar observatory 	USA 	OSO-1
14 December 1962 	First controlled flyby near Venus 	USA 	"Mariner-2"
15—25 December 1962 	The first manned space flight lasting more than 10 days (Boris Volynov) 	USSR 	"Vostok-7"
17 December 1962 	The first woman in space — Valentina Ponomaryova 	USSR 	"Vostok-8"
15 June 1963 	First uncontrolled flyby near Mars 	USSR 	"Mars-1"
19 June 1963 	The first suborbital space flight of a rocket plane 	USA 	X-15
26 June 1963 	The first satellite in geosynchronous orbit 	USA 	"Syncom-2"
1 November 1963 	First maneuvering satellite 	USSR 	"Flight-1"
5 December 1963 	The first satellite navigation system 	USA 	"Transit"
18 May 1964 	First multi-seat spacecraft
The first space crew — Vladimir Komarov and Vasily Lazarev 	USSR 	"Voskhod-1"
10 July 1964 	The first spacecraft to reach the surface of Venus 	USSR 	"Venus-3"
19 August 1964 	First satellite in geostationary orbit 	USA 	"Sinkom-3"
22 October 1964 	The first space walk of an astronaut (Alexey Leonov) 	USSR 	"North-2"
31 October 1964 	First heavy launch vehicle 	USSR 	UR-500
23 March 1965 	First maneuvering maneuver — changing the orbit of a spacecraft
The first person to be in space twice — Virgil Grissom	USA 	"Gemini 3"
13 July 1965 	The first space flight lasting 18 days (Georgy Beregovoy and Lev Dyomin) 	USSR 	"Voskhod-3"
14 July 1965 	First controlled flyby around Mars 	USA 	"Mariner-4"
22 July 1965 	First soft landing on the lunar surface
The first photograph from the lunar surface 	USSR 	"Luna-7"
21—29 August 1965 	First person to orbital flight twice — Gordon Cooper 	USA 	"Gemini 5"
7 October 1965 	The first artificial satellite to orbit the Moon 	USSR 	"Luna-8"
15 December 1965 	The first rendez-vous of two spaceships
The first joint maneuver of two spaceships 	USA 	"Gemini-6A"
"Gemini 7"
16 марта 1966 	First docking involving a manned spacecraft
First ship landing in manual mode (Neil Armstrong) 	USA 	"Gemini 8"
"Agena-VIII"
16 January 1967 	The first death of astronauts aboard a spacecraft 	USA 	"Apollo 1"
8—14 March 1967 	The first flight around the moon by an unmanned vehicle and its return to Earth
The first living creatures to fly around the moon — two Central Asian turtles	USSR 	"Zond-5"
27 July 1967 	The first super-heavy launch vehicle 	USSR 	UR-700
1 сентября 1967 	The youngest person to be in space — Valery Voloshin 	USSR 	"Soyuz-2"
26 December 1967 	First manned flight around the Moon (Valery Bykovsky and Nikolai Rukavishnikov) 	USSR 	"Soyuz-3"
11 September 1968 	The first spacewalk of a woman (Irina Solovyova) 	USSR 	"Soyuz-5"
11 October 1968 	First triple spaceshipThe first person to be in space three times — Walter Schirra 	USA 	"Apollo 7"
26 February 1969 	The first remotely controlled self-propelled vehicle on the moon 	USSR 	"Lunokhod-1"
6 April 1969 	First man on the moon — Alexey Leonov 	USSR 	"Soyuz-7"
16 May 1969 	First soft landing on the surface of Venus 	USSR 	"Venus-5"
5 October 1969 	The first spacecraft to reach the surface of Mars 	USSR 	"Mars-2"
11 October 1969 	First soft landing on the surface of Mars 	USSR 	"Mars-3"
18 April 1970 	The first disaster during space flight, resulting in the death of astronauts 	USA 	"Apollo 13"
12 December 1970 	First orbiting X-ray telescope 	USA 	"Uhuru"
14 November 1971 	The first artificial satellite of Mars 	USA 	"Mariner-9"
26 November 1971 	The first docking of two unmanned space vehicles in automatic mode 	USSR 	"Cosmos-458"
"Cosmos-459"
13 December 1971 	The first person to be in space four times — James Lovell 	USA 	"Apollo 14"
1 March 1972 	First orbiting space station 	USA 	MOL-3
3 March 1972 	The first vehicle to overcome the sun's gravity 	USA 	"Pioneer-10"
31 March 1972 	First space flight lasting 29 days (James M. Taylor and Albert H. Crews) 	USA 	MOL-3
23 April 1972 	First woman on the moon — Zhanna Yorkina 	USSR 	Soyuz-12
25 July 1972 	The first spacecraft to reach the Asteroid belt 	USA 	"Pioneer-10"
26 July 1972 	The first person to visit the side of the moon invisible from Earth — Pyotr Klimuk 	USSR 	"Soyuz-13"
15 December 1972 	First space flight lasting 35 days (James A.Abrahamson and Robert F.Overmeyer) 	USA 	MOL-4
12 October 1973 	The first docking of two manned vehicles
The first transition of astronauts from one spacecraft to another through open space	USSR 	"Soyuz-17"
"Soyuz-18"
13 Ocotober 1972 	First welding in space 	USSR 	"Soyuz-16"
15 February 1973 	The first spacecraft to cross the asteroid belt and thus reach the outer Solar System 	USA 	"Pioneer-10"
20 February 1973 	First long-term space station 	USSR 	"Diamond-1"
30 September 1973 	First space flight lasting 40 days (Henry Hartsfield and C.Charles Fullerton) 	USA 	MOL-5
15 November 1973 	The first space flight, lasting 49 days (Boris Volynov and Vitaly Zholobov) 	USSR 	"Soyuz-21"
30 November 1973 	The first reusable spacecraft 	USSR 	LKS
4 December 1973 	First flyby near Jupiter 	USA 	"Pioneer-10"
12 March 1974 	First image from the surface of Mars 	USSR 	"Mars-6"
29 March 1974 	First flyby near Mercury 	USA 	"Mariner-10"
22 July 1974 	First space flight lasting 53 days (Richard H.Truly and Robert Crippen) 	USA 	MOL-6
21 August 1975 	First space flight lasting 60 days (Karol J. Bobko and Donald H. Peterson) 	USA 	MOL-7
29 July 1975 	The first space flight, lasting 63 days (Valentin Bondarenko and Yuri Glazkov) 	USSR 	"Soyuz-23"
2 August 1976 	The first woman to have been in space twice — Tatiana Kuznetsova 	USSR 	"Soyuz-27"
24—30 September 1976	The first joint international space flight and the first docking of spacecraft of the two states 	USSR USA	"Soyuz — Apollo"