The document outlines major milestones and events in space exploration from the 1950s to today. It provides details on firsts such as the first satellite, first animal and human in space, first spacewalks, first space stations, and first missions to the moon. Major events of each decade are listed along with the spacecraft or mission and relevant dates.

1. Space TimelineBy: Seth Bishop

2. 1950sFirst successful test of ICBMR 7 rocketAugust 21, 1957First Earth satelliteSputnikOctober 4, 1957First animal in space (the dog Laika)Sputnik 2November 3, 1957First U.S. SatelliteExplorer 1January 31, 1958

3. 50s continuedFirst spacecraft to reach lunar distanceLuna 1January 2, 1959First spacecraft to strike moonLuna 2 September 12, 1959First photographs of lunar far sideLuna 3October 4, 1959

4. 1960sFirst human in spaceVostok1April 12, 1961First American in spaceFreedom 7May 5, 1961First daylong spaceflightVostok2August 6, 1961First woman in spaceVostok6June 16, 1963

5. 60s continuedFirst multi-person spaceflightVoskhod1October 12, 1964First spacewalkVoskhod2March 18, 1965First 8-day space missionGemini 5August 21, 1965

6. 1970sFirst space stationSoyuz 11, Salyut 1June 6, 1971First visit to lunar mountains; first lunar roverApollo 15July 26, 1971First one-month missionSkylab 2May 25, 1973First two-month missionSkylab 3July 28, 1973

7. 70s continuedFirst three-month missionSkylab 4November 16, 1973First operational military space stationSalyut 3 (Almaz)June 25, 1974First international piloted space missionApollo-SoyuzJuly 15, 1975

8. 1980sFirst re-usable spacecraft lauchedColumbaApril 12 1981First American woman in spaceChallengerJune 18 1983First black man in spaceChallengerAugust 30 1983Challenger explodesChallenger (Duh)January 28 1986

9. 1990sAtlantic works with MirAtlanticJune-July 1995Craft lands on MarsPathfinderJuly 4 1997International Space station assembled on groundX-381990s

10. 2000-TodayNASA working on Discovery's fuel tankDiscovery2000sColumbia disasterColumbia2003First tourist in spaceTM-312001