History
Flights people still talk about
A few famous rockets and trips. Each one has a public page you can open.
A short sourced list. It is not every flight. If a number is not on the cited page, it is not repeated here.
Saturn V
Apollo 11
Three people flew to the Moon. Two of them stepped onto it, then everyone came home.
First crewed landing on the Moon. Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed while Michael Collins stayed in orbit.
Saturn V
Apollo 8
Three people flew around the Moon and came back. Nobody landed.
First crewed flight to orbit the Moon.
Space Shuttle Columbia
STS-1
The first space shuttle flight. Columbia went up and landed like an airplane.
First orbital flight of the Space Shuttle, flown by John Young and Robert Crippen.
Space Shuttle Discovery
Hubble deployment
A shuttle carried a big telescope into space so it could look past the air.
STS-31 deployed the Hubble Space Telescope from Discovery.
Falcon Heavy
Falcon Heavy test flight
A very large rocket flew for the first time and sent a car toward the Sun.
First Falcon Heavy flight. The payload was a Tesla Roadster on a heliocentric orbit.