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Cosmic Pioneers

The definitive spacecraft exploring our solar system and beyond, each one the first of its kind. The machines that took humanity from looking at the sky to venturing into it.

  1. 01 Sputnik 1 First artificial Earth satellite 1957 Enter
  2. 02 Vostok 1 First human spaceflight 1961 Enter
  3. 03 Apollo 11 First crewed Moon landing 1969 Enter
  4. 04 Space Shuttle Columbia First reusable orbital spacecraft 1981 Enter
  5. 05 Voyager 1 First craft to enter interstellar space 2012 Enter
  6. 06 Ingenuity First powered flight on another planet 2021 Enter