worlds first artificial satellite, orbited for 98 min and orbited for 3 months
First animal in space, likia the dog
First chimp in space, it was in space for 16 min. The chimp survived
First astronaut into space, was in space for 15 min
Valintina Tereshkova is first women is launched space, was in space for almost 3 days
Had Astronauts orbiting earth to test capabilities of human ;preparing for Apollo mission
First probe to take pictures of mars.
The goal was to send men to the moon, 6 missions made it to the moon
first spacecraft to go though the asteroid belt and first images of Jupiter
the second satellite to take pics Jupiter and 1st to visit the outer planets
It takes pictures of deep space farthest its seen is 10-15 Billion light years and was used to pin point the age of the universe.
Studied Saturn's rings and landed a prob on Titian an outer moon.
28 countries involved and the goal is to do experiments.
first satellite to land on a moving commet
On going mission involving two mars rovers, Spirit is discontinued, the goal was to find water, both went very far past there original goals
To observe the dwarf planet Seris
To decide habability of the planet