Spacecraft

Sputnik 1

First artificial satellite to orbit the Earth

Academy of sciences USSR

Explorer I

NASA JPL

1st American Satellite

Soyuz

Manufacturer: Energin

Longest serving route to space

Launched into space for more than 40 years

Soviet ISS

Hubble Space Telescope

Manufacturer: LM

Optics: Perkin Elmer

Only of the largest and most versatile telescope

Helped determine rate of expansion of universe

Detected light from furthest individual star ever seen to date

Voyager

Manufacturer: JPL

First human made object to fly past Uranus

First spacecraft to study all four giant planets of the solar system at close range

Skylab

Manufacturer: McDonnell Douglas

Americas first space station and first crewed research lab in space

1/5 size of ISS

Space X Crew and Cargo Dragon

First private S/C to take humans to the space station

Only reusable cargo S/C in operation

Vanguard

Manufacturer: Naval Research Lab

First solar powered satellite

Oldest human made object still in orbit

“Grapefruit satellite”

4th in space

Arianespace Ariane 5

European heavy lift space launch vehicle

112 successes out of 117 launches Launched the James Web Telescope

Saturn V

Manufacturer: Boeing, North American, Douglas

Used in Apollo program - launched the Apollo 11 crew

Launched Skylab

Designed by Werner Von Braun

Mercury Redstone

Americas first crewed space booster

Launched the first and second American in space

Chrysler corporation

Mercury Atlas

Launched the third American in space

Evolved into one of the world’s premier satellite launchers.

McDonnell Aircraft

Space X Starship

Tallest and most powerful launch vehicle

Fully Reusable

Has the largest payload volume of any launch vehicle

Space Shuttle

World’s first reusable space vehicle

Six shuttle in total: Enterprise, Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis, and Endeavour

Rockwell International