Mars - Timeline

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Jul, 29, 1958
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NASA founded

National Space Agency signed as an act by Potus Eisenhower, as a result of the Cold War space race in the 1950s.

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Oct, 15, 1958
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Experimental planes

NASA joins forces with US Air Force, navy and Aviation to gather data for the creation of the experimental rocket plane X-15.

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Apr, 9, 1959
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Project Mercury

NASA chooses 7 pilots, for special training in a one man capsule, eventually reaching earths orbit.

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Apr, 1, 1960
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TIROS-1 Launch

NASA launched Americas first weather satellite, the TIROS-1. Monitoring Earths cloud cover and weather patterns form space.

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1962 - 1966
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Gemini Program

An early NASA human spaceflight program, two man capsule that helped NASA get ready for the Apollo moon landings.

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1962 - 1975
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Flying bathtubs?

New heavyweight body designs looking like flying bathtubs paved the way for future space shuttle designs.

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1961 - 1975
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Apollo program

The NASA program that put man on the moon in a 3 man capsule.

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July 20, 1969
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One small step for man..

The day that Apollo11 put the first humans on the moon.

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1969-present
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Space shuttle spinnofs

The space shuttle program generates tons of technological spinoffs

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July 23, 1972
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Landsat launches

Meeting immense budgetary, geopolitical and secrecy opposition. The Landsat1 was finally launched in 1972, providing earth terrain data from space.

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May, 14, 1973
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Skylab space station

NASA launches the first US space station from Kennedy Space Center.

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nasa.gov
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1977-present
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Voyager

Vessel for outer space exploration, has passed Jupiter and Saturn and is still going strong over 40 years later.

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1979-1981
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Winglets

NASA introduced aeronautical innovations that would benefit all types of aircrafts

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1981-1990
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Forward-swept wings

X-29 Flight research brought new innovation.

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nasa.gov
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1986-1993
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Wind shear program

Sensors developed to improve air safety

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nasa.gov
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1990-present
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Hubble Space Telescope

First telescope designed to be visited in space by astronauts and have repairs.

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nasa.gov
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1993-present
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International space station

United states and Russia merged efforts to design and construct an international space station.

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NY Times
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1999-present
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Earth observing system (EOS)

NASA launched satellites for long-term global observations of the surface, earth, atmosphere and oceans.

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1994-2003
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Environmental research (ERAST)

Joint NASA initiative to develop aerial vehicles for environmental missions at high altitudes.

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nasa.gov
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1998-present
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Mars exploration Rovers

Mars pathfinder demonstrated a number of innovative, economical and highly effective approaches to spacecraft and mission design.

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solarsystem.nasa.gov
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May, 6, 2002
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SpaceX founded

Elon Musk spends millions of dollars from his own fortune to fund spaceX.

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NY Times
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2004
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Vision for space exploration

President Bush unveils new vision for space exploration towards using the moon as a launching point for missions beyond.

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nasa.gov
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Sep, 28, 2008
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Falcon1 reaches orbit

Falcon1 is the first privately funded rocket to reach earth orbit.

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Spacex.com
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2009
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Mars science laboratory

A long term effort of robotic exploration of the red planet, trying to find out if mars is an environment able to sustain microbial life.

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nasa.gov
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Dec, 9, 2010
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Falcon9 launch & recover

Rocket launches, reaches orbits and is succesfully recovered.

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nasa.gov
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May, 25, 2012
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Spacecraft sent to ISS

SpaceX Dragon becomes first private spacecraft to visit the international space station.

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Spacex.com
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Dec, 3, 2013
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SpaceX first satellite launch

Falcon9 rocket launched it’s first commercial payload, carrying the SES-8 communications satellite.

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Forbes
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Dec, 22, 2015
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Falcon9 succesful landing

First orbital rocket to propulsively land safely back on earth.

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NY Times
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Apr, 8, 2016
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Landing on droneship in ocean

Falcon9 makes history by landing on a droneship in the atlantic ocean.

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CNN
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Sep, 6, 2016
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Interplanetary transport system

SpaceX reveals long-awaited ITS, a spaceship and rocket to colonize Mars with.

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The Verge
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Mar, 30, 2017
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First to re-fly used rocket

SpaceX becomes the first to re-fly, in a step towards vastly less expensive spaceflights.

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The Guardian The Verge Huffington post
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Jun, 3, 2017
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1st reflight of commercial spacecraft

Falcon9 completes it's eleventh resupply mission to International space station with successful landing in florida.

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SpaceX Nasa Blogs Space.com
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Sep, 6, 2017
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Unveils worlds largest rocket

The biggest rocket ever built called Falcon Heavy to lift off in a few months.

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Business Insider
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Feb, 6, 2018
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Falcon heavy launches

Falcon heavy succesfully launches into orbit, Elon Musk admitting a 50/50 chance of success.

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Earthsky Spacenews
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2024
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Landing humans on Mars

SpaceX sets ambitious plan to send humans to Mars as soon as 2024

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Inverse
2020 - 2050

New robots to other planets, manned mission to mars, additional space telescopes & Lunar outpost construction.

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NASA founded

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Experimental planes

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Project Mercury

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TIROS-1 Launch

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Gemini Program

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Flying bathtubs?

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Apollo program

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One small step for man..

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Space shuttle spinnofs

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Landsat launches

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Skylab space station

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Voyager

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Winglets

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Forward-swept wings

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Wind shear program

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Hubble Space Telescope

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International space station

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Earth observing system (EOS)

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Environmental research (ERAST)

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Mars exploration Rovers

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SpaceX founded

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Vision for space exploration

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Falcon1 reaches orbit

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Mars science laboratory

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Falcon9 launch & recover

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Spacecraft sent to ISS

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SpaceX first satellite launch

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Falcon9 succesful landing

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Landing on droneship in ocean

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Interplanetary transport system

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First to re-fly used rocket

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1st reflight of commercial spacecraft

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Unveils worlds largest rocket

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Falcon heavy launches

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Landing humans on Mars

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2020 - 2050

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