Astronaut: Timeline

1961   Ham, a 37 pound male chimpanzee, is rocketed into space aboard Mercury-Redstone 2, in a test of the Project Mercury capsule, designed to carry U.S. United States

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 astronauts into spa on trial for crimes against humanity in a court in Jerusalem Jerusalem

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, Israel Israel

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1965   Ranger 8 crashes into the Moon Moon

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, after a successful mission of photographing possible landing sites for the Apollo program astronauts.

1965   Cosmonaut Astronaut

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 Aleksei Leonov, leaving his spacecraft Voskhod 2 for 12 minutes, becomes the first person to walk in spa

1973   Skylab program: NASA NASA

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 launches Skylab 4 with a crew of three astronauts from Cape Canaveral, Florida for an 84-day mission.

1984   Astronauts Bruce McCandless II and Robert L. Stewart make the first untethered space walk.

1985   Takao Doi, Mamoru Mohri and Chiaki Mukai are chosen to be Japan's Japan

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 first astronauts.

1986   United States Navy United States Navy

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 divers find the largely intact but heavily-damaged crew compartment of the Space Shuttle ''Challenger Challenger

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''; the bodies of all 7 astronauts are still inside.

1997   Tune-up and repair work on the Hubble Space Telescope Hubble Space Telescope

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 is started by astronauts from the Space Shuttle ''Discovery Discovery

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''.

2003   The Space Shuttle ''Columbia Space Shuttle Columbia

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'' disintegrates over Texas Texas

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 upon reentry, killing all 7 astronauts onboard.