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2011
NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft becomes the first to orbit Mercury.
1990
Launch of the Hubble Space Telescope.
1995
The Galileo spacecraft arrives at Jupiter, later dropping a probe into its atmosphere.
1961
Yuri Gagarin becomes the first human in space aboard Vostok 1.
2001
The near Shoemaker lands on the asteroid 433 Eros, first landing on an asteroid.
2016
Junon orbital insertion around Jupiter to study its atmosphere and magnetosphere.
1962
Mariner 2 flies by Venus, becoming the first successful interplanetary mission.
1976
Viking 1 and Viking 2 land on Mars, the first U.S. mission to land successfully on Mars.
2018
Launch of the Parker Solar Probe, studying the Sun's outer corona.
2017
Cassini's 'Grand Finale' as it ends its mission by plunging into Saturn.
1957
Launch of Sputnik 1, the first artificial satellite.
1977
Voyager 1 and 2 were launched to study the outer Solar System.
2022
Artemis 1 mission launched, a test flight for NASA's Artemis program.
2020
NASA's Perseverance rover and China's Tianwen-1 mission launch to Mars.
2021
James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) is launched to study the universe in infrared.
1986
The Mir Space Station is launched by the Soviet Union.
1989
Voyager 2 makes a flyby of Neptune, completing the 'Grand Tour' of the outer planets.
2006
Launch of New Horizons to study Pluto and the Kuiper Belt.
2013
China's Chang'e 3 mission lands the Yutu rover on the Moon.
2014
European Space Agency's Rosetta becomes the first mission to orbit and then land a module on a comet.
2019
NASA's InSight lander detects a 'marsquake' for the first time.
1971
First space station, Salyut 1, was launched by the Soviet Union.
1981
First Space Shuttle mission, STS-1, with Columbia.
1972
Apollo 17, the last Apollo moon mission, occurs.
1969
Apollo 11 mission, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin walk on the Moon.
1998
International Space Station (ISS) construction begins.
2004
Spirit and Opportunity rovers land on Mars.
2012
Curiosity rover landed on Mars as part of the Mars Science Laboratory mission.
2015
First detection of gravitational waves, confirming a prediction of Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity.
2008
India launches its first lunar mission, Chandrayaan-1.
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