Timeline
68 years of space exploration
From landmark firsts to the milestones ahead: firsts, major missions, discoveries and accidents that shaped our relationship with space. Filter by event type.
Full timeline
The 2010s
2015
Discovery · NASA
New Horizons flies by Pluto
First detailed images of the dwarf planet and its landforms.
The 2020s
2023
Discovery · NASA
OSIRIS-REx returns a sample from asteroid Bennu
First asteroid sample returned to Earth by the United States.