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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