Space Stories
Launches, landings, telescopes and discoveries beyond Earth, one date at a time, each with sources from space agencies and archives.
1965
1965 · Space
Alexei Leonov makes the first spacewalk
March 18, 19651964
1964 · Space
Mariner 4 Launches Toward Mars
November 28, 19641964
1964 · Space
Mariner 3 Launches Toward Mars but Loses Power After Its Shroud Fails
November 5, 19641964
1964 · Space
Voskhod 1 carries three cosmonauts into orbit
October 12, 19641964
1964 · Space
Ranger 7 transmits close views of the Moon
July 31, 19641963
1963 · Space
Arecibo Observatory Opens Its Giant Dish in a Puerto Rican Sinkhole
November 1, 19631963
1963 · Space
Valentina Tereshkova launches aboard Vostok 6
June 16, 19631962
1962 · Space
Mariner 2 Flies Past Venus
December 14, 19621962
1962 · Space
Ariel 1 becomes Britain’s first satellite
April 26, 19621961
1961 · Space
Enos Orbits Earth on Mercury-Atlas 5
November 29, 19611961
1961 · Space
Venera 1 passes Venus after contact is lost
May 19, 19611961
1961 · Space