Top 10 Greatest Triumphs in Space Exploration
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Some of the most amazing space exploration achievements have happened in recent memory. Whether it’s the Mars Exploration Rover or NASA’s New Horizons space probe doing a flyby of Pluto, these are important space travel successes – as are things like the Hubble Space Telescope and the start of the space shuttle era. WatchMojo counts down ten of the greatest moments in space exploration history.
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00:39 #10: Sputnik 1 – October 4, 1957
01:47 #9: The First Space Station – April 19, 1971
02:35 #8: New Horizons’ Flyby of Pluto – July 14, 2015
03:27 #7: The Start of the Space Shuttle Era – April 12, 1981
04:30 #6: The Voyager Programs – August 20, 1977 & September 5, 1977
05:34 #5: The Hubble Space Telescope – April 24, 1990
06:32 #4: The Mars Exploration Rover – June 10, 2003 & July 7, 2003
07:23 #3, #2 & #1 ????
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The thumbnail should have been Wall-E.
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I think you should have included the Cassini-Huygens spacecraft, of which the Huygens part landed on Titan. This is the furthest landing ever made by something made by humans.
Today is the day the first man on the moon land
Hippeti-Hoppeti!
Running out of ideas
Not even an honourable mention for the Platform landing of SpaceX?
GOD BLESS RUSSIA
Others call this NASA Fail compilation. How can't people see this trickery crap?
If my this comment gets 100 likes I'll teach u how to do this
pleaseteachmeI think you got your top 10 all mixed up a bit.
The Hubble telescope is by far the greatest achievement in space history. IMHO followed by privatization of space exploration.
The moon has been untouched for over 40 years. What an achievement…
New Horizon deserves a higher rank, as well as the Voyager missions. Those are records hard to be broken.
First man on the moon… kidding…
Russsia thinks they landed the first man on the moon lol
LYING SELFISH IGNORANT DICKS
Moon landing… Useless dead end of space program. Also what about Apollo-Soyuz program? Or Venus probes, or GPS satellites?
yh if number 1 ever really happened
Who is early?
fake asf wake up people
no landing on a freaking asteroid?
Fake ass shit
really? first man, first woman, first sattelite and they choose first walk on the moon?
no, I can't agree, the first human to leave the earth must be no 1
The greatest triumphs in space exploration, are examples of what God has already explored.
where's tim peak
Wtf we Found on mars and space X successfully landed a rocket after being in space.
Big thanks to WatchMojo for not ignoring Soviet acivements like many westerners like to do. And also for mentioning interesting facts like Gagarin's medal on the Moon mission, didn't know that and pleasantly surprised.
Faking the moon-landing was a pretty cool achievement.