Lunokhod 1 – The first wheeled craft to land on any celestial body is being exhibited in Moscow
The first of two robotic lunar rovers landed on the Moon by the Soviet Union…
STS 1 Columbia – The first orbital NASA’s Space Shuttle program launches from Titusville
The first orbiter, Columbia (Space Transportation System-1), launched on 12 April 1981 from Kennedy Space…
Baikonur Cosmodrome – The world’s first spaceport for orbital and human launches in Baikonur
The spaceport is located in the desert steppe of Baikonur, about 200 kilometers east of…
OAO 2 Stargazer – The first successful space telescope in Earth orbit
The Orbiting Astronomical Observatory 2, launched on December 7, 1968. An Atlas-Centaur rocket launched it…
International UFO Museum and Research Center – The location of the UFO history in Roswell
Museum is focused largely on the Roswell Crash and later supposed UFO incidents. It was…
Apollo 1 – The Site Of A Mission That Never Flew To Cape Canaveral
AS-204, was the first crewed mission of the United States Apollo program, the undertaking to…
The Alcântara Launch Center – The satellite launching facility of the Brazilian Space Agency in Alcântara
Located on Brazil’s northern Atlantic coast, in the state of Maranhão. It is operated by…
Telstar – The world’s first commercial communications satellite is being exhibited in Washington D.C.
The first two Telstar satellites were experimental and nearly identical. Telstar 1 launched on…
Gran Telescopio Canarias – One of the world’s largest optical reflecting telescope in La Palma
A 10.4 meters telescope, began with the leadership of the Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias…
Voyager 2 – The “tireless” space probe travels in Outer space
A spacecraft exploring where nothing from Earth has flown before, continuing on his more-than-40-year journey…
Apollo 10 – The Command Module is being exhibited in London
The fourth crewed mission in the United States Apollo program, and the second to orbit…
John F. Kennedy Space Center – The Launch Operations Center of NASA in Titusville
One of ten National Aeronautics and Space Administration field centers. Located on the east coast…
Sputnik 1 – The full-scale replica of the world’s first satellite is being exhibited in Sydney
The Soviet Union launched it into an elliptical low Earth orbit on 4 October 1957.…
OV-099 Challenger – The space shuttle disaster next to Cape Canaveral
A fatal incident in the United States space program that occurred on January 28, 1986,…
Belka and Strelka – The Soviet Space Dogs resting at the Museum of Cosmonautics in Moscow
Korabl-Sputnik 2 was a Soviet artificial satellite, and the third test flight of the Vostok…
Zweibrücken Observatory – The giant R2-D2 Observatory in Zweibrücken
The 4.60 meters diameter dome was erected in 2002. The dome houses a optical telescope,…
Mondstein Speyer – Original Lunar Rock is being exhibited at the Technik Museum in Speyer
The moon rock was chipped off from a basalt boulder in the Hadley-Apennine landing site…
OV-102 Columbia – The flight deck windows of the historic space shuttle is being exhibited at the Kennedy Space Center in Titusville
The Space Shuttle disaster was a fatal incident in the United States space program that…