Space Stories
Launches, landings, telescopes and discoveries beyond Earth, one date at a time, each with sources from space agencies and archives.
1996 · Space
Shannon Lucid Returns From Mir
September 26, 19961995
1995 · Space
Galileo Enters Orbit Around Jupiter
December 7, 19951995
1995 · Space
Atlantis launches the first shuttle mission to dock with Mir
June 27, 19951994
1994 · Space
Valeri Polyakov departs for a long mission aboard Mir
January 8, 1994
1992 · Space
Mars Observer Launches Toward the Red Planet
September 25, 19921992
1992 · Space
Endeavour launches a joint American-Japanese laboratory mission
September 12, 19921992
1992 · Space
Roberta Bondar becomes Canada’s first woman in space
January 22, 1992
1991 · Space
Discovery Returns from an Atmospheric Research Mission
September 18, 19911991
1991 · Space
Atlantis launches the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory mission
April 5, 19911990
1990 · Space
Discovery launches with the Ulysses probe
October 6, 19901990
1990 · Space
Discovery launches with the Hubble Space Telescope
April 24, 19901990
1990 · Space